Pre-woke phase. Princess Diana. Her ex-husband. Not so much the causes they supported as the opportunities for photo ops.

Noticed a distinct anti-Republican bias in movies and literature decades ago (even early Stephen King, long before he went completely off the rails); remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers in 1978.

Dick Van Dyke's show Diagnosis Murder has some wokiness to some of its scripts. (1990's)

I noticed in 2008 voters tripping over their feet to get to the polls to vote for Obama to prove they weren't racist.

Conversation around 2014 with my late sister, who hated the oil companies and aspired to own a Tesla, when I mentioned the lithium mining to make EV batteries and the devastating impact on the environment, it went completely over her head.

Pre-woke phase. Princess Diana. Her ex-husband. Not so much the causes they supported as their opportunity for photo ops.

Noticed a distinct anti-Republican bias in movies and literature decades ago (even early Stephen King, long before he went completely off the rails); remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers in 1978.

Dick Van Dyke's show Diagnosis Murder has some wokiness to some of its scripts. (1990's)

I noticed in 2008 voters tripping over their feet to get to the polls to vote for Obama to prove they weren't racist.

Conversation around 2014 with my late sister, who hated the oil companies and aspired to own a Tesla, when I mentioned the lithium mining to make EV batteries and the devastating impact on the environment, it went completely over her head.

Pre-woke phase. Princess Diana. Her ex-husband.

Noticed a distinct anti-Republican bias in movies and literature decades ago (even early Stephen King, long before he went completely off the rails); remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers in 1978.

Dick Van Dyke's show Diagnosis Murder has some wokiness to some of its scripts. (1990's)

I noticed in 2008 voters tripping over their feet to get to the polls to vote for Obama to prove they weren't racist.

Conversation around 2014 with my late sister, who hated the oil companies and aspired to own a Tesla, when I mentioned the lithium mining to make EV batteries and the devastating impact on the environment, it went completely over her head.