I would append Dante to every comment deriding Trump and his Republican enablers I ever make now that I've run across it.
Tu stesso ti fai grosso
—Paradiso, Canto I, lines 88, 89, 90
col falso imaginar, sì che non vedi
ciò che vedresti se l'avessi scosso.
“I don’t believe them at all,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, according to pool reporter Todd J. Gillman of The Dallas Morning News. “I believe him.”
“Jim Jordan is one of the most outstanding people I’ve met since I’ve been in Washington,” Trump continued. “I believe him 100 percent. No question in my mind. I believe Jim Jordan 100 percent. He’s an outstanding man.”
Outstanding man, that Jordan.
The San Francisco Giants ballclub recorded its 45th victory today by completing a sweep of a three game series in Arizona against the division-leading Diamondbacks. The victory lifted the team to five games over .500 for the season.
Last year, in a season left unremarked if equanamity is to be preserved, the club reached its 45th victory on August 8, never reaching .500 the entire season long.
Presently the lads are five weeks ahead of last year's pace, suggesting that last year's result will be surpassed as well.
Play Ball!
After Roe v. Wade was overturned, the right to an abortion devolved to the states, leaving much of the country without reproductive services of any kind that could be linked to the practice of abortion, and a few more fortunate states where women's reproductive rights continued to be respected.
Thus a ramshackle network of drivers grew up to serve the needs of women who wished to take advantage of services that could only be acquired in an often distant juristiction.
The drivers found themselves targeted by a self-described Christianist militia centered in the Southern states, whose purpose was to distrupt, fatally if necessary, the journey of these women.
SYFY network, 13 episodes…
No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, But shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.
The question of whether all the children recently kidnapped from their parents by ICE at the border as a feature of the Trump Administration's zero tolerance policy will ever be properly returned does occur.
I mean, didn't people who run the sort of outfit ICE aspires to be discover long ago that tattooing the arm provides ineradicable indentification?
(A simple bar code on the back of the wrist in this age might easily attach to all manner of information about its bearer, given the ubiquity of bar code reader technology. A properly labelled child would be difficult to lose track of given such a scheme.)
Pentagon officials said that over the next three years, the Defense Department will take responsibility for all background investigations involving its military and civilian employees and contractors. But according to a U.S. official, the White House is expected to soon give the department authority to conduct security reviews for nearly all other government agencies as well.
— Pentagon to take over security clearance checks, Associated Press, May 31, 2018
We have the unearned distinction of living contemporaneously with Bob Dylan, an artist whose creations are of such magnitude that from here on out his corpus will live as long as that of Shakespeare. Who in Shakespeare's day suspected his stuff would be carried to the end of whatever English is? But we know now that Dylan's will.
Happy Birthday, maestro.
Michael Cohen's attorneys have reluctantly revealed, when pressed by Judge Kimba Wood in Federal Court, that Michael Cohen's law practice extends to exactly three clients: Donald Trump, of course, Elliot Broidy, surprisingly, and, after a round of foot-dragging in court today, client number three.
So everyone knows the one about the Irishman, the rabbi and the Scotsman walking into a bar, or the Englishman, the priest and the zen master sharing a parachute, or the president, the adulterer and the broadcaster doing whatever the hell it was they were doing that made them clients of Cohen. The rule of three makes for solid jokes.
Newly added Andrew McCutchen had a career day at the plate for the San Francisco Giants this evening, going 6 for 7 with 10 total bases, four RBI's, 2 runs, and a game-ending 14th inning three-run walk-off home run. To beat the Dodgers.
Perhaps shipping containers full of human waste could be stacked along the southern border instead of parked in unlucky Alabama towns. Contributions in kind from all over the United States would eventually make possible as complete and repellant a barrier to entry as any nation state has ever assayed, and revive our nation's rail infrastructure to boot.
I was drafted into the United States Army exactly fifty years ago today, on March 27, 1968. There was a war going on, and right then the Army needed more bodies: that week's haul of inductees was the largest haul to date, tens of thousands of poor fucks who weren't in college (maybe they couldn't afford it, maybe they weren't smart enough to go or smart enough to stay in once they got there, like me, maybe they'd just graduated and lost their student deferment) or couldn't get a doctor to write a note, or avoided the draft in any of the many other ways creative young men took advantage of at the time.
There I went, after a day at the induction center in Oakland, flying off, drafted, on the first jet plane I'd ever ridden in, flying up north to Fort Lewis.
I,
oh I, can turn a gray sky blue,
you see, I can make it rain when I want it to
oh I,
can build a castle from a single grain of sand
you see, I can make a ship sail on dry land.
Ain't happy am I with all the powers that I possess,
girl, you're the key to my happiness,
and I can't get next to you, babe
can't get next to you.
I've been trying a long time
I don't know what to do
Oooooo
Let me say,
I,
I can fly like a bird in the sky
I can buy anything that money can buy
Oh I,
can turn a river into a raging fire
I can live forever if I so desire
Ain't happy am I with all the powers that I possess,
oh, you're the key, 'cause
I can't get next to you, babe
can't get next to you.
I've been trying for such a long time
…Let me tell you that
I,
I can turn back the hands of time
you better believe I can
Oh I, you see, I can make the seasons change
just by waving my hand
Let me say,
I,
I can change anything from old to new, girl,
oh I, all the things I want to do the most, you see, I'm unable to do unimportant, all these things that I'm trying to do the other day, girl,
you see, I can't get next to you, baby
can't get next to you
I've been tryin a long time...
oh if somebody'd only help me...
oh, let me, let me go...
whooooo...
I,
I've been working on it baby
I've been thinking about it you see,
I've been trying to call you all day long but, you see,
I don't have your phone number, honey
I,
I've been thinking about you baby something awful,
you see, sometime I feel like I want to moan about it
and I just don't know what to say
and I say
Mmmmmm...
On his own terms, pretty often right. Now departed.
To Hawking's annoyance, his much-checked calculations produced findings that contradicted his second law of black hole mechanics, which claimed black holes could never get smaller, and supported Bekenstein's reasoning about their entropy. His results, which Hawking presented from 1974, showed that black holes emit radiation, known today as Hawking radiation, which may continue until they exhaust their energy and evaporate.
The established facts of Russian meddling in the 2016 election were the causal basis that prompted the House Intelligence Committee's investigation into the matter early last year.
Tonight the Committee's Republicans have ruled that the established facts are not evidence, and wrapped up their work.
