There's some positive news being circulated today: Daily Kos @ a report about times when responsible bureaucrats refused to capitulate, and prevented Nacho Man from inflicting additional wounds on America. This kind of thing is very unusual, but we should be proud that somebody had the guts to do it.
Added 5:23 PM Sunday 10/10: Every morning I read a few of my favorite comic strips online, one of which is Doonesbury. I've read that one off and on for several decades. The subject of Trudeau's Sunday strip today is the insane Texas abortion bounty law, and @ www.gocomics.com had attracted nearly sixty reader comments. I usually ignore those, but today I was curious. As I read the opinions, I picked up two terms for future use in sentences like this one: Tex-Ass is controlled by Taliban-gelicals.
Sunday is usually the day of the week that I spend more time at a keyboard, before a screen, than any of the other six. Trying to catch up with national news today led me to mildly reflective thought, to be briefly summarized as follows:
Human beings can generally be described in one of three ways:
- People who do things or live in ways that make the world better for everybody, or at least try to.
- People who do things or live in ways that make the world a worse place to live for most people, or at least try to.
- People who live their lives quietly, and don't do many things that have an effect on the rest of society for better or worse.
It seems to me that for nearly five years, news reports have been dominated by people in the second group. For various reasons, huge numbers of them have congregated around Nacho Man, who embodies every terrible characteristic of the type. It's unfortunate for those of us who occupy the other two groups that those in Nacho Man's group are often treated like normal, decent human beings instead of the bottom-feeding creatures they really are.
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