First off, this wonderful bit of news:
John Kasich is in agony over his decision last year to support the eventual Republican nominee and the current reality that Donald Trump is his party’s presumptive standard-bearer.
“You know, it’s painful. It’s painful. You know, people even get divorces, you know? I mean, sometimes, things come out that, look, I’m sorry that this has happened,” the Ohio governor said in an interview aired Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “But we’ll see where it ends up. I’m not making any final decision yet, but at this point, I just can’t do it.”
I love my governor more all the time. Disagree with him a lot, but still love ‘im.
On a different subject, here’s a short discussion about the reluctance of soldiers to kill:
The results were consistently the same: only 15 to 20 percent of the American riflemen in combat during World War II would fire at the enemy. … The question is why. … [The answer] is the simple and demonstrable fact that there is within most men an intense resistance to killing their fellow man. A resistance so strong that, in many circumstances, soldiers on the battlefield will die before they can overcome it.
More on this is available from the wonderful Delanceyplace.
Finally, here’s one for the Buffy fans among my readers (all three of you):
Have a measurably superior weekend!
Brian D. Buckley 