Christmas is just two days away and Hanukkah is ongoing, so I could offer you the standard-issue, saccharine, count-your-blessings holiday greetings in the last Morning Jolt newsletter until December 27.
But two days before Christmas is also the date of the pseudo-holiday “Festivus,” marked by the “airing of the grievances.”
And perhaps it’s the Jets’ flopping for the fourth straight week — congratulations to Charlie Cooke and Jaguars fans everywhere — but I find myself in a mood to lay out everything that isn’t going right as 2022 is coming to a close, and the giant national and international to-do list in the year ahead.
The Airing of the Grievances
Over in The Dispatch, Nick Catoggio, the artist formerly known as Allahpundit, writes, “You can tell a lot about someone’s priorities by what makes them angriest,” writing about the populists who sound a lot more angry about Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to not wear ...