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Hoist on His Own Petard 0
One of my history professors used to delight in pointing out what he called “the ironies of history.”
Image via Juanita Jean.
Afterthought:
Those ironies are oft bittersweet.
I think the professor was Dr. Bill Shade, under whom I studied the Early Federal Period during my year in graduate school, out of which I dropped, for I realized that I was not cut out to be an academician.* (Hell, when I drove away in my U-Haul heading east back to the Eastern Shore, I did indeed feel a weight lift from my shoulders. It was a metaphor come to life.)
He was a bright spot in that experience
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*”Academic” is an adjective. “Academician” is a noun. It’s called “proper usage.” Live with it.
In Spite of the Evidence 0
Dr. Jean Kim explores the magical thinnking of anti-vaxxers.
The Lies of the Land 0
Mike explores why evangelical “Christians” like Sarah Huckabee Sanders find it so easy to lie for Donald Trump (warning: language, vehemence).
Republican Family Values 0
Almost in passing, Leonard Pitts, Jr., notes a confluence. Follow the link for context:
“God as a License To Discriminate” 0
David and his guest discuss the history and meaning of “freedom of religion” in the context of U. S. history.
The Court Is in Sessions 0
Forewarning: The nuns “forced” to buy birth control Sessions referred to were not forced to buy birth control for themselves, as the clip below implies. They were ordered to provide for birth control in their employees’ health coverage.
Aside:
The right wing defines “religious freedom” as freedom for evangelical “Christians” to force their beliefs on others.
If a Hindu or Muslim or Buddhist or whatever were to refuse to bake a wedding cake for a Christian in protest of, say, forced conversions to Christianity in Spanish colonies in the 1500s, just to pick something out of thin history, you can bet that would be a whole nother story.