Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and AG Ken Paxton briefed "faith leaders" on SB6 at a Hyde Park Baptist Church event in Austin. The event was called by the "US Pastor Council".
As Steven Salaita says on Facebook:
Trump is unusually crude and boastful. As a result, nearly all his actions highlight a reality obscured by more cultured politicians: the ruling class, in both its conservative and liberal incarnations, has unadulterated contempt for those with less power.
Mississippi lawmakers are advancing a proposal to add firing squad, electrocution and gas chamber as execution methods in case a court blocks the use of lethal injection drugs.
That's the opening line from a very good Elvis Presley song, "Suspicious Minds". It goes..."We're caught in a trap, I can't walk out...." And so it goes with America 2017. We are truly caught in a trap. Trump is president and will be until 2021 unless he is removed, dies or steps down. Assuming that he will remain as the MFIC for the next 3 years, 11 months and 7 days (but who's counting?) how do we turn things around?
I really hope that SNL will take advantage of Rosie's talent and more than willingness to take on President Bannon. And Palin as Ambassador to Canada. CUE TINA FEY.
WARNING! Skip the next three paragraphs of this post.
As the Titanic, carrying 330,000,000 passengers is slowly heading beneath the waves, it may be worthwhile to keep dancing while the band plays on. And since laughter, though rare these days, is better than crying, my prescription is for you to laugh. Dammit! Whether you like it or not, LAUGH!
So here its goes.
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~
Fiction is a metaphor for real life, it teaches from a perspective uncluttered by irrelevant details and distracting familiarity.
Two articles about the Crimea "issue".
The first is by Eric Zuesse of Washington's Blog and Strategic Culture Foundation. In it, he posits:
