The Last Bridge You Will Cross | for John Lewis

Julie Miller wrote + w/ Buddy Miller recorded a lovely tribute to Representative John Lewis. 

On a man’s god-given right to mistreat women...

It would be easy to say, “‘Stupid is as stupid does,’ Representative Yoho.”

But it’s almost certainly not just that you behaved stupidly, is it....

I Know My Rights

How did come to this?

https://buff.ly/3fGR2n1

What a Difference Two Years Makes ... or Not

Two years ago, today, I posted:

Are all the president’s loved-ones accounted for? Surely there must be a stress-induced explanation for what he did, and failed to do, standing next to Vladimir Putin today in Helsinki....

The gag was an implication that the Russians must have kidnapped a member of the president's family as leverage. How else to explain the events reported, also two years ago, today, by the BBC in a summary of the strange behavior of the President of the United States at a summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland.

In addition to the 12 indicted Russians mentioned briefly in the July 16, 2018 BBC story, the Mueller Investigation would go on to secure confessions or trial convictions against eight US citizens (plus federal charges against another dozen Russian individuals and entities.

Later, after reading the redacted report of that investigation, I concluded that, were I seated on a grand jury presented with the volume and specificity of the evidence in the report, I would be compelled to vote for indictment in most, if not all, the instances the report detailed.

Roger Stone, whose sentence was commuted last week — was prosecuted and convicted by a jury of seven felony crimes. Commuted - not pardoned - Roger Stone remains a convicted felon who will do no jail time or reparation for his offenses.

Today, the American president continues taking the side of Vladimir Putin against the investigative findings of the US Intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and the president continues taking the side of confessed and convicted criminals working against US interests in and in parallel with his administration.

Other than that, I imagine the president's first instinct every day is to put America first, unless it isn't.

Donald J. Trump Presidential Apology Database

Bubba Wallace by Zach Catanzareti Photo /
CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)

The president of the United States this week asked NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace to apologize for something Mr. Wallace did not do.

This reminds me of something I have not done, which is to build a database of all this president's public apologies.

Related to that, I mean to build a database of everything he has said or written that includes the words, "I was wrong."

If you would like to contribute to this database, I welcome your involvement as I feel sure there will be many instances, each of which will have been reported by multiple news outlets. We'll need to cross-reference all those so as not to make it appear that the president has been overly contrite.

Our work is cut out for us. If you'd like to pitch in, let me know! 

Come On — You Know What I Mean.

The question behind the question...

 F. C. Yohn, in Lowell Thomas, The Hero of Vincennes: The Story of George Rogers Clark, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929), facing p. 116.
https://www.in.gov/history/2988.htm