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Thanks for covering another day full of hair-raising events, Dr. Richardson! From the abominable sentence of Evan Gershkovich to the ridiculous display of ignorance by Ms. Guilfoyle, and so much in between.
Here is a new ad by George Conway which might summarize very well what needs to happen: cdn.jwplayer.com/previe…
PS: There is obviousl…
Thanks for covering another day full of hair-raising events, Dr. Richardson! From the abominable sentence of Evan Gershkovich to the ridiculous display of ignorance by Ms. Guilfoyle, and so much in between.
Here is a new ad by George Conway which might summarize very well what needs to happen: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/hzz6eGyt
PS: There is obviously a reason why there are no medical reports out of the trump camp about his injured ear - even his sons confirmed that it was 'nothing' to write home about. That stupid bandage was a "PR stunt", as another celebrity stated.
I'm surprised he did not come out on a crutch. Then toss it away. A "MIRACLE".
one meme says "Is anyone else surprised he didn't pretend to be dead for 3 days and then rise again?"
(attributed to Sherry Loucks on Facebook)
The bandage was apparently enough.
Well, JL, he does speak in tongues! 🗣️
Barbara, I just spit my drink at the computer screen~ lol!
Thanks. I needed that. I went on a rant last week and avoided the comment section for a few days. I spared myself the pearl-clutching, but missed some of the funny stuff.
Cheer up, J L. He could always have a relapse that will require the use of a crutch temporarily until he tosses it away?
Morning, Lynell. He just might...
Morning, Ally!
Aw, what a thread. Needed this
Same, JD.
🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣
😂😂🤣
Or rip the bandage off to show he was miraculously healed.
incredible video and new PAC that George Conway has set up...spread widely...
Just contributed to PsychPac!!!
Thanks for sharing the George Conway ad!
Thank you for the link. I frequently refer to George Conway's article, Unfit for Office (The Atlantic, October 2019) Glad he's taking this to the next level.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/george-conway-trump-unfit-office/599128/?gift=p4GRqRxyScAXMvm0CnpQyWVrY3HHa62AH592zURQZHU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Y'all need to watch Conway's ad Marli posts above.
Also, the media need to follow the "Goldwater Rule" for Biden.
Thanks Marli for sharing Conway’s ad. The more people are educated about the truth of Trump’s pathology the better. Let’s not forget about his enablers either-they’ve got some issues to deal with too. (There’s “mental illness involved with believing that skin color or gender makes a human being “superior” to other human beings.)
Human nature is a mixed bag as are our collective circumstances. It seems to me that we have the capacities and we have (at least at this point) to enable the missions the Constitutional Preamble talks about, relieve a great deal of suffering, pain and anger, encourage awe and gratitude for our hour upon the stage, and minimize the occurrence of lives that are nasty, brutish, and short. I think that yearning for "a better world" (or a better species-wide relationship with our world) is as old as recorded history, and probably older, but unmitigated ego (Latin for "I") gets in the way.
I think that "Truth", both in the sense of accuracy, as well as in the sense of honesty, is our road out of "hell". That, and knowing that truth, even in the sciences and explicitly in the sciences, always remains an unfinished quest, but seeing, listening, feeling and thinking openly supplies a fertile basis for varied degrees of confidence. And yes, Phil Balla, I think the arts play as vital a role as the sciences in that empowering awareness, when pursued with integrity. And I think that integrity means conversations in good faith, at least when it really matters. A willingness as a society to collectively detect and reject lies and lying and rewarding efforts to tell truths, or at least our best efforts at good faith, since surely all of us are confused about some things.
And critically, seeing ourselves as both uniquely individual and inherently social beings, whose actions affect one another and that it matters. Would that not be a step toward a "better", more joyful world?
One encounters frequent references to Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" but mostly in reference to the beauty and painful irony of their love affair. But that story is part of a larger one which Shakespeare introduces as:
"Two households, both alike in dignity
(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene),
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean."
In the play, it happens (though too often doesn't) that the loss of two beloved children breaks the narcissistic madness that left a long wake of sorrow:
'Where be these enemies?—Capulet, Montague,
See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love,
And I, for winking at your discords too,
Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished."
Upon which both families vow to abandon their hatred. Shakespeare's work is replete with keen and resonant observations of human nature, in addition to the amazing beauty of it's language, both of which has kept it alive for centuries. We pay a dear price for narcissistic road rage, for greed. It's the enemy of old that, in the end, might doom our whole species to perish from the Earth.