Matt Davies for April 23, 2024

Opinions? I don’t mind people fighting over opinions. You can have any opinion you want.

People making up their own “facts” is another matter entirely. Like those “facts” about “men often wear dresses and hide in bathrooms to rape women” and similar fantasies that are often presented as fact, when in reality they are just political talking points in the culture wars. I STRONGLY object to that crap, and the laws should be changed to allow the injured parties to sue.

It looks like the infrastructure bill should be used to widen the information highway.

one opinion based one facts the other based on lies from the dear leader

This comic nails it perry-bible-fellowship/2024/04/16

We need to bring back the peace and love from the 1970’s.

Gotta say that while there are some extremists on both sides, the evidence suggests that it is the GOP that is:

- Banning books that say anything “woke” (which means anything they don’t like, notably things about racism, gay people, climate science, and evolution) and bragging about it (e.g., Florida and deSantis)

- Rewriting history to remove things like slavery (e.g., Texas)

- Blocking protesters and encouraging people to hit them with their cars (Florida and Oklahoma tried to remove vehicle driver liability for hitting protestors, starting years ago.)

- (Special item for #45): Threatening and doxxing people who might testify as to the truth.

I doubt either one is actually “middle-of-the-road”.

One of those opinions includes anti-vaxxer takes………………..so, there’s that.

“One day, making tracks in the prairie of Prax,

Came a North-Going Zax and a South-Going Zax.

And it happened that both of them came to a place where they bumped.

There they stood. Foot to foot. Face to face.

“Look here, now!” the North-Going Zax said, "I say! You are blocking my path. You are right in my way.

I’m a North-Going Zax and I always go north. Get out of my way, now, and let me go forth!"

“Who’s in whose way?” snapped the South-Going Zax. "I always go south, making south-going tracks.

So you’re in MY way! And I ask you to move and let me go south in my south-going groove."

Then the North-Going Zax puffed his chest up with pride. “I never,” he said, "take a step to one side.

And I’ll prove to you that I won’t change my ways if I have to keep standing here fifty-nine days!"

“And I’ll prove to YOU,” yelled the South-Going Zax, "that I can stand here in the prairie of Prax for fifty-nine years!

For I live by a rule that I learned as a boy back in South-Going School. Never budge! That’s my rule. Never budge in the least!

Not an inch to the west! Not an inch to the east!

I’ll stay here, not budging! I can and I will if it makes you and me and the whole world stand still!"

“Well … Of course the world didn’t stand still. The world grew.

In a couple of years, the new highway came through and they built it right over those two stubborn Zax

And left them there, standing un-budged in their tracks."

[The Zax, from “The Sneetches and Other Stories,” Dr. Seuss, 1961]

One of out nation’s greatest modern philosophers.