Tina's Typical Tuesdays

  Madam Secretary: The Model Modern Woman Good morning and happy Tuesday! It appears that this will be my final blog article of July 2022, so almost a farewell to summer too, unfortunately. Luckily, I have just the perfect Quote of the Week for this time of the year: "Summertime is always the best of what might be." - Charles Bowden     F rom its pilot episode in 2014 to its series finale in 2019, Madam Secretary has captured the hearts and minds of innumerable viewers. Fans who have witnessed the rather unconventional State Department—and, spoiler alert, eventual White House—reign of Elizabeth McCord know that she doesn't operate like the "usual DC bureaucrat" (as so fondly put by her dear husband Professor Henry McCord); instead, Bess manages to maneuver the world of self-serving agendas and clay feet with a unique sort of moral grace. For instance, in spite of the usual (and more) party turbulence within DC, she opts to remain centrist, eventually convincing...

        "A Good Guy with a Gun Stops a Bad Guy with a Gun" — Debunked. Hello readers! Welcome back to yet another week of frustrated ranting about unnecessary problems in America—but other than that, I hope all of your summers have been as good as they can be. Without further ado, here's the Quote of the Week: "The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." - Albert Einstein.      O ver the course of this generation, before today's youth even learnt what a syllable was, mass shootings have been a constant reminder of a plague that has found a nest in America's Constitution, a plague that officials and organisations across the country have recognised as a literal public health crisis. Still, day after day, continuous reports of (typically) young, unstable men with guns spraying bullets into public spaces, from schools/universities to grocery stores to the Las Vegas Strip, are re...