Topics for today: conservative grievance and rage; Marriage Equality is the next conservative target; Christian behavior; religious tests; longing for a 12th century past.
(I usually display an image from one of the items I post, but for today I’ll show this image of a Monkey Puzzle Tree, a couple of which we saw in the Salesforce Park a few days ago, as described in my post three days ago.)
Salon, Chauncey DeVega, 23 March 2022: New research on Trump voters: They’re not the sharpest tools in the box, subtitled, “Now there’s proof: Trump’s voters lack ‘cognitive sophistication,’ often believe Bible is literal word of God”
And: Republican victim-hood and their desire to discriminate against people they don’t like. And why the Supreme courts keeps discovering “new” rights.
The Atlantic, David French, 18 March 2022: What the Russia Invasion Teaches Us About the Right, subtitled, “Contrarians aren’t critical thinkers. They’re gullible reactionaries, vulnerable to conspiracy theories.”
Republicans pulled a fast one for DST. And according to them, everything wrong in the world is the Democrats’ or Biden’s fault.
I have several more links about the DST initiative, but for the moment…
I’ve created a page on this site called Musings, which is now up there on the top menu bar, where I’m compiling links and summaries to various essays on this site, from over the years, that are generally philosophical in nature, without being comments to links, as most of my posts here are.
A bill passed the Senate today to make Daylight Saving [not Savings] Time permanent. This, in effect, would redefine noon, in the US, to be the time of day indicated by 1pm on the clock.
This is, in effect, changing each state’s time zone to be the one next over to the east. So California will be in Mountain Time, Colorado will be in Central Time, Texas will be in the Eastern Time, and Georgia will be in Atlantic Time. (Some countries do this kind of thing.) Perhaps this is even more easily done than worrying about “daylight saving time.” Think how time zone maps of the world will look.
LQCs: Grievances, Envy, Government & Technology, Sleeping at Night
What I discussed yesterday is in today’s NYT.
NYT, Charles Homans, 19 March 2022: Trucker Protest Moved by More Than Opposition to Covid Mandates, “The demonstrators camped outside Washington are rallying against Covid restrictions, but are fueled by a far broader set of right-wing grievances.”
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