- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, former pastor Bruce makes the case that evangelism, and by extension most of traditional Christianity, promotes self-harm.
- From a different perspective, pastor John Pavlovitz points out that today’s conservative attack on programs to help the least-of-these is an attack on Jesus.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors delivers to us a war-on-the-poor quote that has been making the rounds, and concludes unassailably that Paul Ryan is a sociopath. I suppose it still depends on whether the quote is accurate and in context.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara at Principled Perspectives seems to believe that poverty is caused by anti-poverty programs. Let-them-eat-incentives worked through most of human history when, as we all know, starvation did not exist.
- Republicans are sometimes accused of attacking the health of the seriously ill. Sometimes it’s true. Tommy Christopher documents a singular judicial decision by Trump Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch that he knew would result in the death of a cancer victim. The case did not involve medical treatment, only in the right briefly to work from home during a contagious influenza epidemic.
- Vincent at A Wayfarer’s Notes walks us from the pages of a satire about a pre-Trump Trump-type to a medically intrusive procedure to see what ails him. Vincent is a bright and polished gem. Of course, we wish him the best.
- The Journal of Improbable Research finds a compelling study on the link between coffee and cancer. The firm conclusion: There is no there there. None.
- (O)CT(O)PUS at The Swash Zone has done an informal study of sorts and concluded that Trump supporters suffer from a form of delayed pain reflex syndrome.
- I didn’t believe it at first, but yeah. Green Eagle looks at the Congressional Record and tells us the official legislative name of the Republican repeal and replace bill.
- If repeal-and-replace doesn’t pass, our president believes Republicans can force Obamacare to fail and people will blame Democrats. Won’t work. Jonathan Bernstein points out that Donald Trump now owns Obamacare.
- Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass offers a thought experiment to demonstrate whether a fetus is a human being.
- Glenn Geist at MadMikesAmerica suggests that the Justice Department get off the dime and investigate presidential lies.
- Last Of The Millenniums can finally tell us where our President gets his facts.
- driftglass searches his memory and finds a tenuous connection from nearly a decade ago between himself and a discredited blogger. The blogger now poses as an intelligence expert to help defend Russia’s Putin.
- David Graham delves into the Trump administration’s expansion of “alternative facts” into an all out attack on the concept of analysis.
- Kathy Gill at The Moderate Voice tells us that the loss of a Secret Service laptop is more troubling and more mysterious, going beyond even the physical protection of President Trump.
- John Scalzi at Whatever wonders why we love fictional thieves but not real thieves.
- Infidel753 educates us on a strange movement to force English into a subset of the German language, stripping out all words that can be traced to non-German origins. Infidel suggests a possible useful outcome involving Donald Trump and his executive orders. I dunno. Maybe. An alternative might simply be to re-read our president’s philosophy in its original German. Still, Infidel is on to something interesting.
- The Onion carries the satiric story of a convicted criminal facing further penalties for generating profits going to a private prison.
- nojo at Stinque reacts seven times to that cute episode of a BBC interview interrupted by the expert’s children. Can’t tell for sure whether nojo is scolding his readers or recoiling from his own quick responses. Insightful in any case. I usually get bored by any analyses of humor. Seems like going to a fine restaurant and eating the menu. But this brief piece is really very good.
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Thank you for the link to me — I suspect you intended it to go here rather than to Bloomberg.
Thank you, Infidel.
I should be more careful when coming out of the flu.
(That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.)