Tag: aint

We mingled with 1,000 gifted people. Life ain’t always easy, they say

It’s coffee break time at the packed event venue in the western German city of Duisburg. Participants sip hot beverages while discussing astrophysics and philosophical paradoxes. Before heading to a lecture on radioactivity or Korean writing, some manage to squeeze in a 1,000-piece puzzle. As you might have guessed, this isn’t just any ordinary conference. […]

“May be your role, but it ain’t mine.”

So there’s nothing in his performance, if that’s the word we’ll use, what he has done that would indicate that he cares, prioritizes, or ever valued or did anything to support a democracy. And now on the ballot saying he should have immunity from whatever he might do, I mean, really, I have sympathy and […]

A $34 trillion national debt? You ain’t seen nothing yet.

$34 trillion? Unimpressive. Every time the gargantuan national debt trips a round number, there’s a flurry of attention before we get back to borrowing and spending more. The national debt recently hit $34 trillion for the first time ever, prompting concerned Americans to look at each other with arched eyebrows and say, really? But $34 […]