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- 2403 deaths were enough to put us at war against an empire. It happened 79 years ago this coming week, seventy nine. Yet it was enough to still be compared with other disasters, even now. M. Bouffant at Web of Evil notes a new milestone. We have now have more than that number of tragic deaths every single day from COVID-19.
- Skipping one state west from here in Missouri, Frances Langum documents how a Kansas community became united against its chief medical officer. She was degraded, mocked, and threatened to the point of requiring a sheriff’s escort. Can we guess what much of that same community has in common now?
- Athena Scalzi at Whatever had reason to suspect she might have been exposed to the coronavirus. She did not much enjoy the COVID-19 test but, for some reason, thought it was worth it. Something to do with early mortality and exposing others to danger.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz corrects a friend. We have not yet reached the end of our 4 year trauma. The real PTSD stage of the Trump years won’t arrive until the wounding has stopped. Until the time of healing begins, we stay alive and treat each new affliction. Beginning January 20, we’ll have time for the post part of traumatic stress.
- In Nan’s Notebook, she records what she hopes will be her last fierce, scathing, burning letter to her Senators about Trump.
- Andy Borowitz reports on warnings by Russian President Vlad Putin that, when Joe Biden takes office, the US will be controlled by Americans. He accuses Biden of being the handpicked instrument of those who would seek to advance American interests.
- There is always time for another episode of Trump vs the Voters as Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson just reports the facts. The recount in Wisconsin finds more votes for Biden.
I may be wrong in thinking that one of the best conservative writers around is getting bored and impatient with the seemingly unending series. Consider this factual conclusion from James:
Trump’s campaign has been largely unsuccessful in its legal efforts, mostly putting forward unsubstantiated claims of fraud and conspiracy theories that have been quickly dismissed by the courts.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit tells us that, yes, there are some actual documented cases of voter fraud, where someone casts a ballot when they are not permitted by law. And she notices a distinct pattern in those cases.
- At The Moderate Voice Joe Gandelman watches as Trump’s Attorney General, the ever corrupt Bill Barr, finally discovers a line he can’t cross, at least not yet. He says his detailed investigation has not yet discovered enough voter fraud to affect the ouster of Mr. Trump. Note the use of yet.
- So how could Trump have lost? Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger hears Donald Trump’s rhetorical question and provides a non-rhetorical answer.
- In Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson explores the significance of General Michael Flynn’s call for the overthrow of the election, the silencing the media, and putting the military in charge.
A correspondent praised the recently pardoned General Flynn as a military hero. I agree.Fought bravely, gravely wounded, boot filled with blood, declined medical treatment, continued leading the fight. An American hero indeed at the Battle of Saratoga.
Describing Benedict Arnold, another genuine hero who also betrayed his country.
— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) November 26, 2020
- Green Eagle connects a few dots – Trump relying on a Supreme Court he has packed to overturn the election, Flynn’s demands, a Trump lawyer calling for violence, and the well documented by-any-means-necessary Trump pattern. The mighty green bird connects the dots to draw a disturbing picture.
- There are a few signals Trump may be contemplating the horrible nightmare of the end of power. In Scotties Toy Box, soon-to-be-former president Trump wrestles with the issue of pardons. For himself and you and you and you, up to 20 YOUs. That would be the start of his Christmas list.
- Vixen Strangely, at Strangely Blogged, takes a look at the pardons, pardons, pardons issue. At heart seems to be what Trump considers illegal as opposed to what the law considers illegal.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors notes just one of the apparently legal ways my temporary president has discovered to take millions out of all those campaign donations and deposit the cash into his own pockets.
OH! And Trump also seem also to have found another for his son-in-law.
- In Hackwhackers, we stare in awed wonderment at the developing bloody War between the Republicans.
- nojo provides insights ranging from his youth up to today’s Trump supporters. There is and has been an overriding role for American racism.
- Dave Dubya points to four hard core hot buttons that he suggests form the hard core of the Republican hard core.
- driftglass is more than a little unhappy with those recovering Republicans who opposed him at every step for years and belatedly came to oppose Trump. driftglass is not much for redemption.
I dunno. I know my redeemer lives. So I suppose it depends on how far they have repented.
- Iron Knee at Political Irony explores the predictable migration patterns of deficit hawks. They fly to some remote isle during Republican tax-cuts-for-the-fabulously-wealthy years, then find their way home to nest in the way of all help for the needy when Democrats come in to repair the damage.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara excoriates both Trump and Biden for wanting the rules changed for social media. The out-going and in-coming Presidents want citizens to be able to sue Facebook and others for what users post.
I dunno. I suppose it depends on what analogy we find closer to reality.
If I tell folks by telephone that you molest neighborhood children, most of us would agree the phone company should not be held liable for the libel.
If I hire an advertising firm to put posters and sign boards all over town, should you not be able to sue the ad company as well as me?
How about if I hold public meetings and tell the absolute truth about a lie? “My neighbor Betty tells me that Joe here molests children!” Should Joe be able to sue me?
- Tommy Christopher watches former President Obama pour cold water on the defund the police slogan.
My take:
Obama is excessively charitable. It remains one of the dumbest slogans ever invented.
Yeah, it means something different than it seems. But if you have to explain your slogan, it’s not a good slogan.
I am reminded of Mark Twain on Richard Wagner: His music is much better than it sounds.
- Jonathan Bernstein kinda sorta, maybe, in a backhanded way, defends public opinion polls. They are the best terribly flawed measurement we have between elections.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, one of my brothers-in-Christ writes to let Bruce know that ex-Christians like Bruce are the worst people. Eeeeg. My father often said there is no-one more arrogant than a Christian holding four aces.
- Sarah Cooper is frustrated with voice conferencing. As usual, she is funny and fun as well as insightful.
- So light travels as a wave, right? Nope, it’s a particle. So light travels as a particle then. Nope. It’s a wave. The Journal of Improbable Research broadcasts a discussion by scientists of light’s quantum wave/particle duality, a conversation based on the cooking method of stirring sauce so it doesn’t stick to the pan. Well, there you have it then.
- Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes contemplates everything, or at least a theory of everything, or perhaps what it takes to contemplate a theory of everything. So, of course, we join Vincent in chasing our tails in a search for meaning. A fun read for the mind.
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