My brother called to rant about Mom getting a wild hair about wanting to vacuum the living room and then falling because, well, guess what, the vacuum is out of order, so she tried to start using a floor sweeper and she fell. I asked him if I needed to come over there and read mom the riot act. He said no.

Then he went off on a rant about $10 million in gender studies in Afghanistan tucked into the appropriations bill. I don’t know where it came from and I’m not going to check where but MAN it was a rant. He finally basically hung up on me after I pointed out that a charter school had disgorged $10 million to one of its principals after getting a PPP loan. I’m not so sure he hung up because he was mad at me or rather because he realized he’d worked himself into a froth and shouldn’t have done that. I have been staying away from politics, so he brought this quite upon himself.