POST 1067 Mom Today is the official day we celebrate mothers. I had one and it’s likely you did, too. So, today, in addition to all the “Happy Mothers Day” wishes, give Mom a special thanks for raising you to think critically and to have integrity. As we’ll see, those can be in short supply…. [read more]
May You Not Live In Interesting Times
POST 1066 Read all the way to the bottom for some good stuff. About Those Interesting Times Of course, that expression, often claimed to be a Chinese curse (but without verified attribution), didn’t include the word “not” in the original. Decide for yourself if it was intended to hope for something other than bland life… [read more]
Not That Giuliani
POST 1065 Giuliani Can Wait. First Crime, Anti-Social Behavior and Cookies All the statistics tell us that our rate of crime is decreasing. Nevertheless, we rage at one another as though it’s a holy exercise against crime, as some may well feel that it is. What could better demonstrate our goodness and integrity than frothing… [read more]
Misplaced Referendum
POST 1064 First, A Solution to Campus Protest Violence It’s simply intolerable that what we’re seeing on college campuses now looks just like the conflicts we faced in the 1960s. We should have learned something in all this time, like that when we send in people who only know force that violence is what we… [read more]
Somebody Has To Tell Me . . .
POST 1063 . . . why we are even talking about: – whether doctors can be criminally prosecuted in Idaho for having made efforts to save the life of a pregnant woman in distress or if they have to wait until death is imminent before proceeding with life saving treatment and by then the woman… [read more]
Law And Order: Special Hush Money Unit
POST 1062 Headline of the Month From Politico of 4/14/2024 – “A porn star, a president and a publisher named Pecker: “The key potential witnesses at Trump’s criminal trial” The Hoped For End of the Hush Money Trial It’s the conclusion of jury deliberation in the Donald Trump hush money/criminal fraud/election interference, multiple count felonies… [read more]
Horrible, Horribler, Horriblest
POST 1061 Horrible Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire had been a Nikki Haley supporter making Never Trump sounds, this in his blowhard-y way, but that doesn’t work now that Haley’s candidacy is over. Now he’s backing Trump. He even says Trump shouldn’t drop out of the campaign even if he’s convicted of felonies. Here’s… [read more]
Reverberation: “Are You Better Off?”
POST 1060 A Bit More About “Are You Better Off?” From March 27 Have a look at this from Sheila Markin’s post, When Will Republicans Give Up on Trump? Biden has been delivering on the promises Trump made and failed to deliver on. Remember how Trump promised infrastructure week? It never happened with Trump. It… [read more]
Useful Idiot
POST 1059 From a Salon interview of Dr. John Gartner: “We have becrumb a nation.” “All comp-ply-ments”. “I know Poten.” “He can’t cam-pay.” “We will expel the wald-mongers.” There are more examples where Trump couldn’t complete a sentence and strung the fragments together incoherently. It’s worth noting that his demeanor changes dramatically at these moments…. [read more]
Smart, Educated, Experienced and Skilled
POST 1058 Sheila Markin posted a fine explainer and updater of what has happened to Trump’s lawyers. Her piece caused a sociological question to bubble up to top of mind. I’ve wondered many times about all those attorneys, every one smart, highly educated, experienced and with considerable skill at their craft. The wonder, of course,… [read more]
