[Note: I’m offering the following as a diversion to get our minds off this terrible timeline. –taw]
William Blake, (1757-1827), The Resurrection, c. 1805
A few years back, I published a post concerning the date of Jesus’ birth (Why Is Christmas on the 25th of December?), in which we briefly touched on the idea of symmetry between Jesus’ birth and death. I quoted Augustine, who noted the belief, current at the time, that Christ’s conception occurred on March 25.
For He is believed to have been conceived on the 25th of March, upon which day also He suffered; so the womb of the Virgin, in which He was conceived, where no one of mortals was begotten, corresponds to the new grave in which He was buried, wherein was never man laid, neither before nor since. But He was born, according to tradition, upon December the 25th. (Augustine, On the Trinity, Book IV, Chapter 5)
Harm van Bakel, a geneticist at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Adriana Heguy, a member of the N.Y.U. Grossman School of Medicine
Maciej Boni of Penn State University
Trevor Bedford, an associate professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington
Sidney Bell, a computational biologist working with the Nextstrain team
Peter Thielen, a molecular biologist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory)
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to not knowing the difference between bacteria and viruses . . . .
So…he doesn’t even remember that antibiotics can’t touch viruses? They must have told him, they must have told him a hundred times, because that’s who he is, but I guess a hundred times he didn’t listen. (Ophelia Benson)
Jesus christ, the man is an idiot . . . . He’s never more stupid than when he pretends to be smart. (PZ Myers)
TRUMP: “Antibiotics used to solve every problem and now one of the biggest problems the world has is the germ has gotten to brilliant that the anti-antibiotic can’t keep up with it. … there’s a whole genius to it … not only is it hidden, but it’s very smart.”
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To the Dumbing of America . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JohGniYph-c
(I have since discovered Susan Jacoby has an article titled Dumbing of America in a 2008 edition of The Washington Post. To bring her point to the level of the Presidency of the U.S. she compared George W. Bush’s “I am the decider” dismissal with F.D. Roosevelt’s invitation for his radio audience to have open maps before them so they could more completely follow his speech. Little could she expect what was to come.) .
Every Single Thing . . .
Every single thing that could be wrong with a human being is wrong with him. But the single most dangerous thing about Donald Trump is how unbelievably stupid he is. It’s not the most dangerous thing in someone who has no responsibilities, but in a President it’s the most dangerous thing.
