Americans Totally Baffled by Police Behavior
There’s a lot of content in this one little photograph. The eye goes initially to the thin women, gazing peacefully forward, holding the “love” sign, but then soon moves to the gloved hand of the thug who’s constricting the neck of her friend behind her.
The mind races. How is the possible anywhere on Earth, and especially in the United States? Why are the police making it so hard for the protests to end? We’re trying to put a halt to brutality and unnecessary force–and by “we” I mean the vast majority of Americans, supported by people all around the globe–and this complete ass**** is using his thumb to compress the windpipe of a 95-pound girl?
Another rhetorical question: Are these cops so stupid that they don’t know there are cameras everywhere? They think they can commit battery and not be noticed?
One of the few good things that’s coming out of the white supremacist movement is our ability to improve our understanding of the laws in various states that address assault and battery. 
Socrates would do what he’ll always be remembered for: hosting a series of dialogues with people who had certain ideas going in, but who were willing to think differently by the time they got up to leave. And there’s the problem: there are damn few of these people in 21st Century America. 
This is not a post on astronomy, but on science generally, and its importance to society.
This proud member of the “master race” is making a very important, albeit unintentional point about the current state of affairs in America, and it’s not so good, is it?
If anything good comes from the Trump presidency, it’s very likely to be that nearly every American now follows current events, and politics in particular. The sign in front of the Trinity Baptist Church shown here is evidence that many previously apolitical institutions have decided that sitting on the sidelines at a time of moral crisis is in and of itself an immoral act. 
I used to play softball with a guy who litigated large-scale torts, like airplane crashes due to negligence. At a party one night, I suggested that jury awards were way out of proportion, and that this was driving up costs for everyone. Here is essentially the response he gave me at the time, which I copied from something a current-day reader, Rochelle Doty, posted: 
“I love my dad and don’t want him to die,” said the Texas Republican Congressman’s indie musician daughter Caroline, before blaming the president for a lack of remorse.
Here’s a cool thing.
Question: What do these elements have in common: Arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, manganese, mercury, nickel, selenium, zinc.
