I hope at least some Republican voters will look up “sanctuary city.”
My Fox News-loving mom was convinced that an illegal alien could commit a violent crime like rape, robbery, or murder in a sanctuary city and the police couldn’t arrest him.
This, of course, is complete crap.
To be fair, there may be some extremely rare form of psychopathology that causes the victim to have the malady described here, but it’s categorically wrong to say that the world hates Jesus (or Buddha, or Allah, or Mohammed).
I remember my elementary school teachers very well. I recall how they were constantly bombarded with questions about gender and human sexuality.
Just kidding.
I’ve spoken with many of today’s educators, both in-the-classroom and administrators, and they say that such conversations literally never happen.
It’s almost as if this crap is designed to further engage the MAGA crowd, who have no real understanding of the subject.
Here in the United States, “not to take part in the lie,” it’s not necessary to be out there marching in the “No Kings” rallies and the rest. Everything except knuckling under counts.
In the U.S. government, we have some extremely brave individuals as well, some of whom are seeing the Justice Department taking aim against them. Do you think that people like former FBI director James Comey is going to make a plea agreement? Sure.
What happens when our institutions of higher learning become pawns of a fascist government?
Let’s hope we never find out.
Congratulations to MIT for standing up.
Though I understand the point here, I question the idea of fighting belligerent and unintelligent people.
When I was a little boy, my grandfather told me never to argue with idiots, an idea I’m sure we’ve all heard at various times in our lives.
MAGA is an unfortunate idea that will either die a natural death or propel Trump into a dictatorship. Arguing against the rank-and-file hateful idiot doesn’t appeal to me.
At left are the words of 18th Century French writer and philosopher Voltaire, one of our most beloved figures in history.
Yet, to be honest, I’m confused by this one. In particular, what would it mean to “raise oneself above the ideas of one’s time?”
Let’s start by identifying the ideas of our time. I would say that we live on the precipice of world fascism and environmental collapse, and that those we most revere are those whose lives are spent walking us back from these impending catastrophes.
What’s next? It’s impossible to know.
Good quote here from Chekhov.
To the existentialist, this applies to the entire universe around us.
Each of us must create our own meaning, whether that means being a child of God, leaving this world a better place than the way we found it, alleviating others’ pain, amassing wealth, etc.
I subscribe to a social media group on old houses, a subject I adore. Some of these are so cheap you could buy them for what we’d pay for a year’s property tax on a place in California.
Here’s a good example. And it’s inexpensive for a reason: you could spend a year fixing it up and it would still be a fixer-upper.
Also, it’s on the back roads of Caswell County, North Carolina. Your neighbors, whom you’ll meet at the local grocery store, won’t be talking about third-world politics, Wordle, or particle physics. Perhaps U.S. politics, but let’s not go there.
What? I’m confused. “Trump’s Statement” of a few months ago was that “Gas prices are (present tense) under $2.”
It would have been interesting if one of the gaggle of reporters surrounding him could have asked the obvious question: “That’s great, sir, but can you name a single state in the union whose gas prices are under $2?
It would have been a tense moment, for sure. Trump would have said, “Oh, you’re nasty. You’re fake news.”
But don’t we have any self-respect?
