SCOTUS just dealt Trump a minor setback

You may have heard that the Supreme Court has ruled that “no discrimination based on sex” means “no discrimination based on sexual orientation, or whether you’re a man who thinks he’s a woman, or whether you’re a woman who thinks she’s a turnip.”

I think it’s a fair guess to say that conservatives will dislike this opinion and liberals will celebrate it.

So, how does it hurt Trump?

One of the big reasons conservatives come out to vote in presidential elections is that they want to see conservative Supreme Court nominees. And so far, Trump has done well with his court appointments.

But this decision will make people wonder if it’s worth it.

“What’s the point?” they might ask. “We spend all this effort to get conservatives on the court, and then once they get on the court, about half of them turn liberal anyway! We never see a liberal become a conservative, but we regularly see so-called conservatives become liberal. They get enamored of Washington society, and the praise of the local big shots, and they apostasize. Or maybe it’s just the swamp water. But one way or another, these so-called conservative judges don’t stay conservative.”

It’s not a major setback, but I think it is a setback.

The free (??) nation of CHAZ

In case you haven’t heard, some troop of morons has taken over a few city blocks in Seattle and declared a new nation — the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ.

It’s not at all amusing that so many of our elected officials have been revealed as thoroughly incompetent at almost every level of analysis, but it is quite amusing that two of the first things the residents of CHAZ did were to create a border and to make a police force.

Fun with time travel: a review of the paradoxes, plus time travel vacations

P&C drink and review Semi Charmed Pale Ale from Key Brewing and discuss all the fun issues and contradictions that go along with time travel.

First, there are problems with physics about location, inertia and conservation of mass. Then there are all the fun philosophical questions, like the predestination paradox, the ontological paradox, the grandfather paradox, the idea of stealing from the future, the “kill Hitler” paradox, the butterfly effect, and more. Then there’s the alleged solution of multiple timelines and multiple universes.

Then the boys discuss their favorite time travel vacations, and highlight the man of the week.

We’re heading in a very ugly direction

French Revolution

“Silence = murder.”

I saw a sign with that slogan in my town. I’ve seen many more pictures with similar slogans.

So you must speak!!

But “incorrect” speech will get you banned, shunned, fired, and you’ll probably get death threats.

This adds up to a simple paradigm: you must agree with the fashionable interpretation of the facts, or your life is over.

I don’t know enough about the French Revolution to say if the tweet is correct, but it certainly resonates. I can easily see how we’d get to such a point.

You know more of the Bible than you think you do

The boys drink and review Grubby Thicket Brown Ale from 7 Locks Brewing, then discuss sayings from the Bible.

Most of us know lots of phrases from the Bible without even knowing it. [The general public, that is. Not the well-educated readers of the Crowhill blog.]

Writing on the wall, turn the other cheek, a fly in the ointment, skin of your teeth, the scape goat, a leopard can’t change his spots, bite the dust, letter of the law, salt of the earth, and many many more.

P&C discuss how our culture is steeped in the Bible, and how it provides a common frame of reference.