Unrelated comments, in no particular order.
Things that are worse than slavery:
Bill Barr tells us that stay at home orders are worse than slavery.
Ben Carson says Obamacare is worse than slavery.
Here is a list of a lot of things Ben Carson says are worse than slavery. (How does he know?)
Keep watching this space, more are bound to turn up.
Replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court.
It appears Republicans have discovered the Constitution. Democrats want two wrongs to make a right. And Mitch McConnell can make up whatever he wants and call it tradition. The rule of law is only as strong as our willingness to live by it.
Remember when a Democratic-controlled Senate approved Anthony Kennedy for the Supreme Court in the last year of Reagan’s presidency? What does that do to McConnell’s tradition?
I’m reading What’s the Matter With Kansas? by Thomas Frank. It’s about how people keep voting for politicians who oppose their interests. It could have been written last week.
Germans have an ice cream dish that looks like spaghetti, down to the tomato sauce and parmesan cheese, called Spaghettieis. That’s strawberry sauce and white chocolate on vanilla ice cream. [Image is “I just became aware that Americans don’t know ‘Spaghetti Ice Cream'” by Frederik Hermann on Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)]
Try to stay sane.
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