A Tune for the Times 0
Warning: mild language.
The Constitutional Scholar 0
PoliticalProf does his own research.
Extra-Special Bonus QOTD 0
W. Somerset Maugham, in the voice of the teller of the tale. The teller summarizes the story of the temptation of Christ from the Gospel of Matthew, then continues:
That was the end of according to the good simple Matthew. But it wasn’t. The devil was sly and he came to Jesus once more and said: It thou wilt accept shame and disgrace, scourging, a crown of thorns and death on the cross, thou shalt save the human race, for no man hath greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Jesus fell. The devil laughed till his sides ached, for he knew the evil men would commit in the name of their redeemer.
Maugham, W. Somerset, The Razor’s Edge, in a collection with five
other of his novels (New York: Heinemann and Oyster, 1980) p. 472
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
And now they’re even Bragging about it.
Afterthought:
Their cover story is flimsier than a house made out of straw.
It’s quite clear to what audience they bow.
The Lake Effect 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini thinks he sees a bit of MAGA karma.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Washington Monthly, Robert J. Shapiro hears a most disturbing rhyme. Here’s a couple of bits from his article:
And in Schmitt’s framework, when enemies at home or abroad gain notable political sway, it creates a grave emergency that warrants executive action outside the law. It’s clear why Schmitt was the favored theorist for the Nazi party and a senior jurist in the Third Reich.
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*Mark Twain.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
As trustworthy as that phone call telling you that you owe money to Walmart when you haven’t set foot in a Walmart in a decade?* You should be so lucky.
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*Based on a real life experience.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At Northjersey.com, Laura Morowitz argues forcefully that Donald Trump’s hostility towards immigrants is fundamentally nothing more than another case of mean for the sake of mean.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Yet another “responsible gun owner” feels constrained to expose his portable phallus to a fellow driver.
Guns and stupid, guns and stupid.
They go together like love and Cupid.
Let me tell you brother,
You can’t have one without the other.
Sportsball 0
I did not watch the Super Bowl. I have better things to do with three hours of my life than watching large persons run into each other at high speed, like, for example, watching reruns of Just Shoot Me, which is an absolute hoot.
And don’t get me started about the corruption unseemly practices of the IOC and FIFA.
But, as someone who lived in the Philly area for many years, I must say, I find the outcome of today’s game to be somewhat gratifying.
A Tune for the Times 0
Mangy imagines Donald Trump’s dystopia.
Disappeared 0
If it’s not on the website, then it never happened.