ratiocinations out of thin air and elsewhere
WARNING: This is where all the really political things are found. Know that I am so liberal that I don’t mind at all that others are conservative—as long as your opinions are based on facts. While I have mellowed considerably with age, I still suffer fools poorly.
As Artemus Ward reputedly observed: “It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble, it’s the things we do know that just ain’t so.”
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WE MIGHT WONDER what benefits impeachment is likely to yield, ponders Andrew Bacevich in “The Real Cover-Up: Putting Donald Trump’s Impeachment in Context.” As to the benefits of impeachment, Bacevich believes that answering that question “requires examining four scenarios that describe the range of possibilities awaiting the nation.” [Read more] “we might wonder what benefits impeachment is likely to yield”
First, they came for the black-spotted newts but I did not speak out because I was not a black-spotted newt.
Then they came for the spotted owls but I did not speak out because I was not a spotted owl.
Then they came for the butterflies but I did not speak out because I was not a butterfly. [Read more] “first they came for the black-spotted newts”
WHEN I WAKE IN THE MORNING, the first thing I do is make a mug of Cafe Bustelo coffee. I don’t wake up with my brain/mind functioning at 95 percent as I used to—more like 75 percent. As I sip my coffee, I warm up the ol’ ratiocinator for the day’s writing by perusing Quora and answering a few questions. [Read more] “the poor questioner might infer that I was judging him”
TRUMPOLYTE! Did I just coin a word? It combines the surname of the current President of the United States with the word acolyte. Originally, an acolyte was “one who assists a member of the clergy in a liturgical service by performing minor duties.” And it sure does look to us non-believers that there sure is a lot of that ol’ time religion mixed up with the beliefs of today’s so-called “conservatives.” [Read more] “a trumpolyte attends or assists his/her leader religiously”
RESPONDING TO A QUESTION on Quora, I used my answer as the basis for a short article that I titled, “Conservatives Not Exactly Enthralled by Trump Are a Problem.” I was addressing what I assumed was a conservative individual who posted that some conservatives “aren’t exactly enthralled” with Trumps’ presidency.
The point of my piece was to take the questioner to task for so timid a response to Trump. [Read more] “can we call trump’s tweeted temper tantrums “tweetrums”?”