Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Sanity Starts To Make A REAL -- And Progressive -- Comeback...

I think the New York Times headline (in blue, below) says it all -- so I will simply say. . . I am well-gratified (click that link for the thoughts of a 20 year old Roger Ebert -- half a century ago, on Birmingham's four little girls -- and it was Senator-Elect Jones in 2000 who prosecuted Klansmen Blanton and Cherry for those terroristic bombings/murders).

And Mr. Trump: take notice. Your time in office. . . is drawing to a close. The time for honoring yourself, is coming to an end.

. . . .The Democrat Doug Jones won in Alabama. The upset trims the G.O.P. Senate majority to 1 and is a snub of President Trump, who backed Roy Moore. . . .


Do sleep well one and all -- as we once again bend the arc of history back toward. . . . progress.

नमस्ते

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Agreed. 44 said on the Anthony Bourdain's show that Progress does not move in a straight line but, he was optimistic. I feel that way today...thank you to the people of AL that stepped up and voted for this change.

condor said...

Exactly, Anon. — in fact, the specific idiom “bend the arc of history toward... progress” is one of the concluding lines — from Mr. Obama's 2008 presidential election victory speech in Grant Park... and yes, thanks go out to all people of good will — anyone who saw through Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and Roy Moore.

A very good morning here, indeed — even as snowflakes fall intermittently again, silently.

Grin!

Anonymous said...

Meanwhile: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/12/scientists_are_watching_oumuamua_an_asteroid_they_think_could_be_an_alien.html

you're usually excited about this kind of stuff

condor said...

I am, indeed, excited — but will not have comment on the tumbling needle, until Breakthrough Listen reports its radio telescope results (which are highly likely to be nothing, to be fair). . . .

What I am really waiting on today comes from NASA’s Kepler telescope team, in partnership with Google’s machine learning tech — at lunch time, we will have news of one or more newly discovered habitable exoplanets. . . .

And perhaps something more dramatic.

We shall see. . . .

Onward, and namaste!