Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers?
--Arthur Miller, The Crucible
Mad Dog was liberal once. Now he's alienated. You know, you grow.
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Mad Dog actually enjoys the Dotard's tweets every morning. After his morning ablutions, Mad Dog checks in with the Pink Puffer. Dotard tweets sharpen his senses. They make him feel superior and alive.
It's his own tribe drives him crazy.
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It all starts with NPR in the morning, on the drive to work.
Mad Dog starts screaming at the radio.
And he likes NPR. He sends them checks every year.
1. A story about transgender patients who just want to be accepted for who they are.
2. A story about the opioid crisis which suggests if only the uncaring Trumpian hordes would allow Democrats to fund drug rehab programs overdoses and addiction would end by New Year's Day.
3. A story about a woman who out-ed Al Frankin as a misogynist, groper, sexual harasser who should resign his Senate seat.
4. A story on global warming causing "invasive species" to proliferate in the Mediterranean and other places.
+The transgender story: Mad Dog wholeheartedly agrees people should not be attacked, belittled or scorned because of their sexual preference, identity etc. There is no excuse for trying to hurt someone who has not hurt you. And Mad Dog believes homosexuals do not "choose" to be different (although they may embrace it.) They simply are. Gay is not a disease. But transgender folks are different, qualitatively, from gays and if you sit in a room with enough transgender folks for long enough, you see that difference very plainly. There is a reason they had to stop the transgender program at Johns Hopkins because of a suicide rate which exceeded 30%.
+The Opioid Story: People dying of overdoses, young people addicted to heroin, meth, cocaine, squandering their youth, getting heart infections, hep C, AIDs is alarming and sad. But to suggest all we need to do is to change government policies is not just naïve and wishful thinking, it's bound to reap a back lash once people figure out this has been a wasteful, unsuccessful approach.
Watched a meeting chaired by Steny Hoyer, during which someone mentioned "compassion fatigue" very common among EMT's, ER doctors, nurses who see the same guy over dosing dozens of times, readmitted for heart valve surgery for infected valves from the use of dirty needles.
The collapse of the "war on poverty" programs of the Great Society, disillusioned the Joe Sixpack, lunch pail crowd who became cynical and hostile when they saw mindless embrace of programs which are bound to fail. We may well see the same for our war against the opioid epidemic.
You want to really go at this problem: study Portugal. Go all in: legalize every drug and treat this like a public health problem with tough love.
+The Accuser Du Jour.: Mad Dog is sorry to admit it, and he knows he is inviting vituperative response, but he has the feeling some of the women lining up to be "Me Too" are just enjoying their moment too much. He knows, he knows, it is so difficult to come forward, but really?
Yes, get your revenge. Unload on the jerks who made your life miserable, but remember, there are phony accusers out there as the NY Times op ed said today.
Not every woman always speaks the truth. The Duke Lacrosse story, the UVA Rolling Stone story demonstrate that much, surely. "Believe the women" can be taken too far.
And playing into the hands of the Roy Moore crowd by stabbing Al Franken is putting your own satisfaction over the needs of the nation. This may sound Machiavellian. Should we excuse Franken to protect the Senate?
But there's another reason to give Franken a pass: the evidence, such as we have it is very different in his case and Moore's case. The news accounts provide enough data to conclude, given the detail of the stories about Moore, there is a pattern there, attested to by enough different women to conclude his was a pattern of malicious behavior sustained for decades.
About Franken, not so much. He might be as slimy as Moore, but he might also be simply boorish, puerile and unfunny. I'm sorry but a photo WHICH FRANKEN KNEW WAS BEING TAKEN AS HE WAS MUGGING FOR THE CAMERA may be stupid and tasteless and gross, but it is a far different thing from a 40 year old man, secretly, in an automobile, running his hand up the skirt of a 14 year old. Can you not see that?
Of course, it has been said we believe the accusers if the accused is a conservative Republican but not if the accused is a liberal Democrat.
You believe what you want to believe.
But the stories and the public testimony and evidence looks vastly different in these two cases--only the Rush Limbaugh crowd can see it the other way.
Not every woman always speaks the truth. The Duke Lacrosse story, the UVA Rolling Stone story demonstrate that much, surely. "Believe the women" can be taken too far.
And playing into the hands of the Roy Moore crowd by stabbing Al Franken is putting your own satisfaction over the needs of the nation. This may sound Machiavellian. Should we excuse Franken to protect the Senate?
But there's another reason to give Franken a pass: the evidence, such as we have it is very different in his case and Moore's case. The news accounts provide enough data to conclude, given the detail of the stories about Moore, there is a pattern there, attested to by enough different women to conclude his was a pattern of malicious behavior sustained for decades.
About Franken, not so much. He might be as slimy as Moore, but he might also be simply boorish, puerile and unfunny. I'm sorry but a photo WHICH FRANKEN KNEW WAS BEING TAKEN AS HE WAS MUGGING FOR THE CAMERA may be stupid and tasteless and gross, but it is a far different thing from a 40 year old man, secretly, in an automobile, running his hand up the skirt of a 14 year old. Can you not see that?
Of course, it has been said we believe the accusers if the accused is a conservative Republican but not if the accused is a liberal Democrat.
You believe what you want to believe.
But the stories and the public testimony and evidence looks vastly different in these two cases--only the Rush Limbaugh crowd can see it the other way.
+ Invasive Species: As anyone who has read about evolution knows: evolution does not anoint favored species because it has favorites, nor does it designate "invasive species."
Environments change; species take advantage of these changes to claim a niche and they thrive. Just because there's a fish or a tree which you lovefor some reason, does not mean we are seeing tragedy writ large on the planet if that fish or tree is replaced by a new species which is more successful in the new environment, which has spelled the end of your favorite. "Native species" once replaced other species. There is no plant or animal which belongs in a given place, which has a right to that space.
Okay, Mad Dog's done it now. He's said it.
Hate him.
Spew your bile.
But there it is.
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