The schedule says that the football conference championships happen soon, but in the real consequential world the Super Bowl is being played out as we speak.

It’s the Texans vs. the Commanders for all the marbles.

Biden challenges Texas, seeks to unlock Ukraine funds

The Border is a made-up line in the Sonoran sand, like the ones in Donbass and Gaza.

Even so, the history of civilization since it emerged from the Paleolithic is one long series of short stories about human body parts piled up on those very same kinds of lines like so many sandbags.

There’s an election in nine months. It will change nothing.