George Rebane
Gracian (#261) speaks to Bumblebrain – Do not persist in folly. Some make a duty of failure and having started down the wrong road, think it a badge of character to continue; they accuse themselves of error before the bar of their inner selves but before the bar of the outer world they excuse themselves, to the end that if at the start of their unwisdom they were marked imprudent, in its prosecution they are marked fools; neither rash promise, nor wrong resolve lays obligation upon any man; and yet some will on this account continue in their sulkiness, and carry on in their contrariness, wishing to be known as constant in their idiocies.
Reasonable fear of Islam. If Islamophobia is the “unreasonable fear” of Islam, then what is the term for a reasonable fear of Islam? I am among those who identify with such a reasonable fear the evidence for which abounds as proclaimed by both Muslim intellectuals and the Muslim street. As an example, consider the opening comment to the 7may24 Sandbox (here).
[29may24 update] The New York judicial system is rotten to the core as demonstrated by the Trump hush money trial judge’s instructions to the jury. He never told them what was the specific crime that Trump was supposed to have committed when his financial records showed the $130K payment to Cohen as a ‘legal expense’ (which it was). Instead he invited each juror to come to their own conclusion on whatever crime suited each the best, and the court would still accept that as a ‘unanimous’ judgement. So now the precedent is set that New York (and other?) juries can be exhorted to convict the defendant on whatever crime each juror would gin up – no agreement or cohesive thought needed. That’s one way to avoid hung juries and nail whoever the trial judge does not like.
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