Erstwhile Justice Snub, We Anti-USA Leftists, GOP Tragic Trajectory

  • Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post has harsh words about proposed Justice Kavanaugh and his snub of the parent of a victim of gun violence. Apparently, it was deliberate.
     
  • My conservative friend, T. Paine at Saving Common Sense, hops on the truly dumb remark by Andrew Cuomo (America was never that great?) to excoriate the left for running down the USA. Oh geez! This liberals-are-anti-American business may get tired to folks like me, but it never gets old for Mr. Paine.
     
    Okay. My view.
     
    What Mr. Cuomo got wrong, what my friend gets wrong, what Mr. Trump (MAGA) gets wrong, what they all fail to see is that America has been great, not in fact, but in trajectory. While the moral universe bends in Dr. King’s long, long arc toward justice, America has moved in jagged jumps back and forth. Overall, hard won gains have predominated amid brutal sacrifice.
     
    Patriots have no need to whitewash the past or particularly want it back. I wrote a little about this after Mr. Trump managed to get a majority of electors. We who miss the direction must battle to get it back for our country.
     
  • Robert Levin, at The Moderate Voice, gets specific as he contemplates the long term downward trajectory of the Republican Party.
     
  • Andy Borowitz reports that Mike Pence is blasting the New York Times for printing an anonymous anti-Trump opinion piece and vows never to write an opinion piece for them again.
     
  • Frances Langum listens as President Obama goes to Urbana to ask this: How hard can it be, saying Nazis are bad?
     
  • Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass reacts as a military hero running for election as a Democrat finds herself swiftboated by Kentucky Republicans.
     
  • Green Eagle takes a look at the informal Justice Department tradition of never making legal moves against candidates within 60 days of an election, and asks why that should apply to non-candidate Trump.
     
  • Neil Bamforth, in MadMikesAmerica, wonders if Putin’s hitmen are still walking the streets of London. Neil suggests that the assassins Russia has been sending have been sloppy, sometimes hitting unsuspecting citizens of Britain.
     
  • In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, one-time pastor, current atheist, Bruce response acerbicly to a Christian who asks if Bruce was ever born again.
     
  • PZ Myers mulls over, and is mystified by, arguments about whether Jesus actually existed. He wonders why it matters to those on his side of the religion divide.
     
    As a committed Christian I am somewhat the captive of dogma, I suppose. But I wonder about the debate for other reasons. If we accept that the Apostles existed, and that several died grisly deaths, it strikes me as possible but unlikely that they willingly died for what they knew to be a hoax.
     
    It is more plausible that they did not exist, and that one madman named Paul just made them up. After all, most non-Jewish followers met only Paul and would have no way of knowing. Still, that strikes me as far fetched.
     
    I can see a reasonable view that those disciples fell victim to a magician’s tricks, or that the miracles were a series of myths that grew organically over years as the life of Jesus was retold.
     
    Professor Myers points out that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, especially given the lack of contemporaneous records about most life in the provinces. But sometimes evidence kind of emerges from the dust. For example, I would find it shattering if conclusive evidence developed that Jesus did indeed exist, but that he died running from Gethsemane with a Roman spear in his back.
     
  • Max’s Dad had never seen Metallica and paid a breathtaking amount for his first time. He says something like: Wow! It was worth it. His explanation is, as always, entertaining.
     

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