She’ll beat you if she’s a bull

• Martin Longman, “Evangelicals Like Trump’s Insult-Comic Act“:

We really need to dig a little deeper into this siege mentality. What’s most important to these voters? That Donald Trump’s hometown doesn’t get hit by another terrorist attack? That their kids don’t have to go to school with Latino children? That their views on homosexuality don’t become as socially unacceptable as their grandfathers’ views of racial equality?

• The ‘vixen is home sick today, getting some sleep thanks to Delsym and Netflix. Her employer is a responsible company, so she can take a paid sick day and stay home instead of dragging her cough to work and turning the salon into a disease vector. This is why paid sick leave laws make us all healthier.

But requiring employers to offer paid sick leave wouldn’t change things in many hair salons, where stylists aren’t hired as employees but as “independent contractors.” They’re basically Uber-drivers with scissors — which means they’re unprotected by many labor laws, vulnerable to wage theft, and abused by the tax code. It also means they can’t afford not to work when they get sick.

• Set aside the whole question of abortion politics and just consider what it means for a sitting governor to be taking part in a “protest” march directed at his own state capitol. I don’t know what you call that, but “protest” doesn’t seem to be the right word.

Who knows, though? Maybe Asa Hutchinson’s bold protest will finally get the governor of Arkansas to pay attention to his concerns. And if that doesn’t work, then maybe Hutchinson can lead another protest march at the capitol, calling for the governor’s resignation.

• “We have a serious problem.”

• RIP Richard Libertini, a versatile character actor with an unforgettable face. I saw him play Jacques in As You Like It in Central Park and he was then, as always, delightful. One of my favorites of his is now streaming free on Hulu — Carl Reiner’s All of Me, with Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin.

• And RIP to Glenn Frey. Here’s my favorite version of one of the Eagles’ biggest hits, “Desperado,” by then-9-year-old Sheila Behman for the Langley Schools Music Project.