Best Posts, COVID, Hope, Bright Spots, Lessons, 2020 Not Over, Calvary, Lin

  • Mark Hertling gently explains what is wrong with a Trump supporter’s assurance to my president, and Mr. Trump’s retweet, about the coming massive demonstration supporting the overturning of the selection of Joe Biden by American voters. Don’t worry, Mr. Trump, the calvary is coming! tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors has an apt illustration. I might ask our pastor about all that at tomorrow’s internet video service.
     
  • Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson seems perpetually skeptical at all the continuing Trump efforts to overturn the election. The latest reaction is in the latest story about the latest filing to the Supreme Court to throw out the Wisconsin votes against him.
     
    My favorite sentence:
     
    The lawsuit, like the Trump campaign’s other lawsuits, does not list specific instances of voter fraud.
     
  • What is it now? 63 losses in court for Trump? 64? More? I’m losing count. Andy Borowitz reports that my president has ordered the new Space Force to discover courts on other planets.
     
    I dunno. Would that be for space suits? Maybe Trump is confused and wants to declare Martian law. You’ve got to admire those new uniforms. From the very first Battle Star Galactica TV series, I think: The original from 40 something years ago (helps to be old).
     
  • Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged delves into the multi-dimensional strategy of Trump lawyer L. Lin Wood and determines how it just might work and save us all.
     
  • Julian Sanchez retweets a legitimate question about on-line censorship. At what point should twitter stop tolerating not quite veiled advocacy of assassination?
     

  • A generally pro-Trump reporter makes a snide comment about the lack of courage needed by fellow journalists who will cover President Joe Biden. Tommy Christopher posts a 5 word response that pretty much ends it. Since it’s in writing, he doesn’t get a chance to drop the mic.
     
  • So the Trump family will be seeking a new home. With Mar-a-Lago ensnared by a written agreement never to reside, and non-Presidential legal accountability for past crimes a looming possibility, Ant Farmer’s Almanac suggests a dialogue with Vlad Putin, who might offer his services as real estate broker.
     
  • Dave Dubya is back (YAY-Y-Y-Y) redefining conservatism based on what we have learned this term.
     
  • nojo notes a largely unreported COVID milestone. We have now passed the point at which the fatality rate is no longer about actual deaths, but rather about statistics. Yup the numbers that remind us of the math classes we hated in school. But now we can skip over them.
     
    I dunno. Maybe we need points of comparison. Like how far we have gone beyond the combined number of deaths when atomic bombs were dropped at the end of World War II on the populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
     
  • Scotties Toy Box has a few possible reactions to the $2,000 stimulus/survival legislation that isn’t and may never be.
     
  • Frances Langum tells us that the $2000-per economic survival bill is not the only important legislation blocked by Republicans. They also oppose a re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act because it might inhibit the right of enraged ex-boyfriends to the use of firearms.
     
  • Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit is right! There really is no reason for a child this age to carry a cell phone.
     
  • M. Bouffant at Web of Evil makes a brief comment about the interrelationship of the global economy and international slavery of kids.
     
  • “Blinding me with science” is coming true, isn’t it? Video editing now helps generate some of the most outlandish stories. Iron Knee at Political Irony briefly explains how video fakery goes beyond selective editing with a hilarious example created by British television as a warning to viewers.
     
  • Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara explains why he doesn’t like the Christianization of Christmas or multi-culturalism.
     
    Since I kind of like both, I have to struggle with this. It’s not because I object. I kind of have a hard time wrapping my brain around either objection.
     
    Christians are trying to hijack Christmas, which has always been a secular holiday. Really? Strikes me as similar to arguing that pink has never had any red in it.
     
    If Christmas has always been without Christ, shouldn’t it have been called …well… mas? If the point is to never ostracize those who celebrate the holiday as entirely secular, then I’m on board. So I suggest to anyone objecting to Happy Holidays an anatomical improbability. Object to that! That doesn’t seem to be it, though.
     
    Okay, so multi-culturalism is wrong because the idea of culture itself violates the idea of individualism, and anything that does that violates freedom. So… is Christmas, secular or not, also wrong because so many folks share the values associated with the holiday? You know, sacrificing their individuality and all? And doesn’t speaking a common language do the same thing?
     
    Confusing to my aging, tired brain.
     
  • In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce takes a close look at the most famous sermon (I studied it in High School) in American history. The theme is that your loving father in heaven really hates you, you sinners.
     
  • Green Eagle posts the wonderful news: a great job offer!
     
    Highly competitive salary. Overtime. Career advancement. Travel.
    Left off: a real chance for fame, participation in history.
     
  • More progress than I would have thought: The Journal of Improbable Research finds several studies, papers, and philosophical works on whether and how you an tell if you are a brain in a vat.
On a personal note. My loved one appeared a little while ago, critiquing in some hilarious detail the film she had just labored through. The worst film of 2020, she called it. Horrible. And, yes, it sounded pretty bad.
Finished her diatribe with “I watched it twice.”
 
I am SO in love.

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One thought on “Best Posts, COVID, Hope, Bright Spots, Lessons, 2020 Not Over, Calvary, Lin”

  1. What’s that woman trying to do, cook her own brain for dinner?

    Thanks for the link. I rarely use such language, but there are cases where it’s warranted.

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