I didn’t block 50501 after the initial furor.

I have now blocked them after reading the apology thread. Not because it was offensive or antisemitic (unlike the original), but because it was such an insipid example of the corporate self-praising kind-of apology that I loathe.

But what about everyone who needs to finish their novels or mustaches?

Is it good when the line keeps going lower?

All day I’ve been thinking…

So much for Cardinal Pizzaballa’s fallback career now that they didn’t make him Pope

One problem with people like this is we don't know how blissful it is not to know of their existence until it's too late

The GOP, defending religious liberty since…oh, I can't bring myself to go on.

Huh. I’m in the US now. I guess you need the BBC Sounds app, & maybe you can’t get that with a US phone.

BTW, fans of Britishisms may like this definition from earlier in the show

Fundamentalist: What You do when you buy a Tesla

Specifically, they laugh at (among other things) speeches like this one.

Check out this, recorded recently in Southampton, England, starting at about 22:08.

BS isn’t, I gather, a deep thinker in general. On this issue, he hasn’t bothered to ask whether people have studied & gathered historical data & reached a consensus on anything. And there’s a LOT of learning on this, even disregarding the international lawyers.

This is facile, ignorant drivel.

The humanitarian justification for invading Iraq was after the fact. Tony Blair loves to pretend now that that was the justification, but it wasn’t. And it wouldn’t have been a close to adequate justification. Only WMD & failing to comply with Security Council resolutions made it even arguable.

At this point, letting this bullshit continue is clearly elder abuse.

25th of Kislev, 25th of December—what’s the difference?

They won’t be the only two. This is going to be vicious & chaotic.

And the NYT should be ashamed.

There is no question: a military attack to eliminate the current government (which is what’s on the table) would be immoral & flagrantly illegal. Shame for making it appear that there’s “a case” for it. There isn’t. It’s not debatable.