Yesterday, I visited Virgil (who returns all greetings). I hadn’t slept all that well, having been awakened over an hour early by pain in my left shoulder – I had been being careful with it, but I guess not careful enough. But I was fit to drive – I assume, since I navigated both ways without incident. The Scrabble set was in use when I arrived, but that visitor left early, so we got to use it right up to closing time. We didn’t keep score, just went for making things that worked. We played one complete game using every tile, and then a second with which we were in the end game when visitation ended. When I play with Virgil I don’t play any game competetively, since it’s not fun for either of us. Not keeping score helps that. I was mostly trying to spread out the board so there would be lots of openings, in which I only partially succeeded. But it was fun for both of us. Before I leave you with the news, I want to share this little tidbit., about what happens when cendorship gets so hot and heavy that a class in Renaissance Art gets censored – such as this one in Florida – and MSNBC picks it up and shares the censorship with a rude pun which they may or may not have known was a rude pun (in my experience, the usage is pretty much restricted to certain regions.)
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Short Takes –
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/why-waco?
Civil Discourse – Why Waco?
Quote – Waco is a dark tale. It’s important for us to understand what it means for Trump to go there today. It’s not the sort of thing that should be brushed off as Trump being Trump. His presence will hold meaning for people who can be moved to action by it, just like the Proud Boys heard Trump’s call during the 2020 presidential debates to “stand back and stand by” as a call to future action. There is risk in tomorrow’s rally. That risk will continue as long as Trump remains on the public stage. It’s more important than ever that he be held accountable, both by the criminal justice system and by the voting public.
Click through for history. This is really not flying over the heads, or under the radar, of those who pay attention to current affairs. However, way too many do not.
Daily Beast – How an Old Affidavit Could Undercut Trump’s Future Defense in the Stormy Daniels Case
Quote – back in 2000, Trump submitted a sworn affidavit to the Federal Election Commission demonstrating a complex understanding of some of the same campaign finance laws that now appear central to Bragg’s case. “I neither reimbursed, nor caused any other person to reimburse, any employee of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, Inc. or its subsidiaries for his or her contribution to Gormley for Senate,” Trump wrote at the time…. That case was fairly complex for a layperson, and it forced Trump to develop and express a sophisticated understanding of specific federal campaign finance laws.
Click through for details. It would not surprise me if Trump** does plan to claim ignorance as a defense. Certainly his allies appear to be claiming it for him. It is to be hoped that that will not go well for him.
Food For Thought
There is a lot more information here.
