Imagine how much more advanced society would be today if women, who comprise half the world’s brain power, were socially & intellectually enfranchised from the beginning of civilization.
Full Moon tonight — "Friday the 13th”. Rare-ish. Occurring every one to two dozen years. Know what’s just as rare? A Full Moon on “Thursday the 12th”, but nobody makes movies about it.
I don’t know how anyone who descends from immigrants,
I don’t know how anyone who claims to be Christian,
I don’t know how anyone who claims to be pro-Life,
I don’t know how anyone who is a parent,
I don’t know how anyone with a heart,
Can defend denying soap & blankets to kids.
We cry foul when fooled by fake news and other forces of brainwashing, when perhaps we should instead build intellectual defenses against it, inoculating us from such influences in the first place.
The new GOP Congressional oath: “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend Donald Trump against all oversight; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to him; that I take this obligation despite mental reservation and in the spirit of evasion of duty. So help me God.”
We've had public figures who sided with dictators abroad; we've had demagogues who indulged bigotry and conspiracy theories at home; we've had politicians with little respect for the rule of law or the Constitution. Until now we've not seen these features combined in a president.