Immunity Impunity
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Warning: Some audio issues.
The Rule of Lawless, Unpardonable Dept. 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., notes that some persons think that, as Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, so too should Joe Biden pardon Donald Trump. He observes
Pitts goes on to argue that the two situations, America after Watergate and America after a litany of Trumpgates, are in no way analogous, advancing four reasons why pardoning Donald Trump for his conduct while president would be a travesty. He makes his case far more cogently than I can paraphrase or summarize it.
I commend his article to your attention.
Aside:
Along the lines of emphasizing how the times of Trump and the times of Nixon diverge, I call your attention to this dystopian possibility raised in all seriousness by Eric Haseltine over at Psychology Today Blogs.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
A PTA Trumpling, that is, parents Trumpling academicians.
The Reopening 0
Afterthought:
I find it bittersweet to contemplate all the news stories about schools that have reopened only to find themselves infected yet again
Science is real. Pretending it isn’t doesn’t make it less real.
“Don’t Normalize This” 0
David comments on Donald Trump’s continued efforts to subvert the election, and, along with it, democracy.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Many years ago, when he was working in Vermont, my brother told me that his boss had stopped hunting.
Seems he–the boss–had been relaxing in a bar after a day in the field and overheard two visitors from another state talking about their day stalking deer. One of them said, “I didn’t see a thing all day,” The other replied, “Neither did I, but I got off a couple of sound shots.”
And that’s when boss hung up his gun.
Courting Disasters 0
In denying Pennsylvania Republicans’ efforts to retroactively exclude mail-in (aka, “absentee”) ballots from the tally of the recent election, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court went so far as to use the word “farcical” in their ruling.
