I am profoundly encouraged after seeing the surgeon yesterday.
My right arm is still too weak for some tasks, but I can go without the cast and the sling.
AND I can begin doing a few of the things I couldn’t do before.
One problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you’re finished.
Typing is still a little difficult.
Here are a few links I simply could not list before.
- Green Eagle reviews the increasingly famous Colorado ruling that holds Donald Trump ineligible to become President Donald Trump.
Section C of the 14th Amendment says an elected state or federal office holder who swears an oath to support the Constitution then conducts or supports an insurrection, can’t hold federal office again.
Included are a few dissenting arguments by Trump lawyers:- The 14th Amendment does not say what it says.
- The 14th Amendment does not really mean what it says.
- The President is not a federal office holder.
Key reason the Supreme Court must listen to, and seriously consider, bad arguments:
I know, hard cases make bad law and all that, but maybe dealing properly with this hard case is somewhat preferable to seeing a replay of Nazi Germany in our own country.
- Hackwhackers reviews social media reaction to mr Trump’s warning that immigrants who do not originate from Europe are poisoning the blood of our country.
Apparently, word-for-word similarities to Hitler’s represent supremacist coincidence, not outright Nazi plagiarism.
- Max’s Dad reviews mr Trump’s neo-Hitler “poisoning the blood” words and the tepid response from Republicans.
Is milquetoast a common description anymore?
- CalicoJack in The Psy of Life gets impatient with young Democrats who are impatient enough with Biden to stay home and, once more, let Trump become President.
- MadMikesAmerica documents the military takeover of New York Times.
Yeah, yeah, it’s fiction.
(Just seems more realistic each day)
- The Propaganda Professor covers the new trend in right-wing attacks on education: replace all this woke stuff about equality and rights with videos from a right-wing blog.
- Successful executives know it is important to let each member of an organization know they are important. At The Onion, a CEO prides himself on laying off every employee by name.
- Someone asks how capitalism concentrates wealth in the hands of the few.
Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara has an answer: it doesn’t.
He knows because he has driven through downtown areas and seen happy shoppers everywhere.
- Andy Borowitz finds an upside for the former Congressional member as George Santos is now able to spend more time with his imaginary family.
- Scotties Playtime brings the LGBTQ+ Holiday message we need to see.
- Frances Langum says it’s a huge deal as Pope Francis okays blessings of same-sex-marriage.
Key moral imperative:
…people seeking God’s love and mercy shouldn’t be subject to “an exhaustive moral analysis” to receive it.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz appreciates the Pope’s inclusive language regarding LGBTQ people. He says it’s a step in the right direction, but also says it is not necessary.
Key spiritual observation:
Religion doesn’t get to decide what is sacred.
- YellowDog Granny has a few ideas on how to talk with Jesus and what to say to Satan.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce examines the claim that the Southern Baptist Convention is growing by leaps and bounds. He discovers the opposite.
Apparently, not everything we Christians say should be taken as Gospel.
- SilverAppleQueen is tired of, and done with, Biden, politics, and those of us who blog about politics. We will, of course, miss her.
- John Scalzi at Whatever remembers two movies based on the television series The Addams Family, and ponders why the second one, the less successfully popular, was better in so, so many ways.
Has to do with letting loose (in a good way) a single scriptwriter.
Thanks for the links. Glad to hear you’ve been doing better.
Wishing you continued healing and strength. You are deeply appreciated here on the internet. Be well.