There, He's Done It - Nothing's Changed - Happy Now?

This mostly reminds me of the night I met a union leader in France. When I asked him what he got, for a strike that delayed my travels for hours, he said "Nothing! But now the bosses know!"

Then he immediately went to bed because his boss expected him at work early the next day.

That experience is partially how I became a conservative:

All along, what kept drawing my eye was a giant oil painting above the couch depicting Cruz as he delivered the first of his nine oral arguments before the Supreme Court. "I was 32 years old," he recalled. "It was abundantly clear we didn't have a prayer. . . . And I've always enjoyed the fact that as I'm sitting at my desk, I'm looking at a giant painting of me getting my rear end whipped 9-0." He gazed at the wall. It is an unusual painting: From the artist's vantage point, we see three other courtroom artists, each also drawing Cruz--so the painting actually features not one but four images of young Cruz before the bench. "It is helpful," he explained to me, "for keeping one grounded."

While the rest of us get ground up,...