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Since you are A Friend, here's an invitation to brush up on your physics:

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Because ridicule is a terrible thing to waste; one should be completely prepared to defend it as unquestioningly deserving.... that's what happened to the New Atheist movement, you know; they died a fairly sudden death from their own 'edgy' snark.

Agnostics, and even atheists like Bryan Appleyard were disgusted by it.

"Broadly speaking, as the title suggests, the solution is scientific. But Rees is no believer in scientism, the idea that science is the only route to all the truth of the world, especially when it is reinforced by the cult of the New Atheism championed by the likes of Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins. Some of the NAs " "small-time Bertrand Russells", he calls them " stirred up trouble at the Royal Society.

He responded that the RS should be secular but not anti-religious and, as evidence, he supplies a beautiful quote from Darwin, the greatest hero of the NAs, on atheism:

"The whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe as he can."

Amen to that."

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Not everyone is as easy as BJ.

Trump's shtick, much like Old Yeller himself, has gotten old, repetitious, tired, and boring. Which only highlights this creature's status as an energy vampire of the very worst sort. And nobody needs energy vampires.

The Trump Epstein Coverup, while holding for now, is an ongoing mess that keeps dominating and damaging his presidency. Like his promise to release his tax returns, the Trump Epstein Coverup shines spotlights on promises made, promises broken, and one big question: If there's nothing to hide about Trump's association with Epstein, why is Trump sweating bullets trying to keep as much information about it as possible from seeing the light of day as he can?

And then there's Trump's War of Choice, which he initially explained as being conducted at the behest of what appears to be the single nation with which the US actually has a "special relationship" - Binyamin Netanyahu's expansionist, ethnonationalist Israel. Given that the Trump end of Netanyahu's war - Trump, of course, always blames his many failures on others - got bogged down and has remained so ever since US war planners appear to have suddenly discovered the location/vulnerabilities of the Strait of Hormuz, this cockup is another ongoing, festering problem. Such a monumental screwup cannot be playing too well with Trump's acolytes and enablers. To be sure, they're happy as pigs wallowing in their own mess if bad stuff happens to other people. But, hey, what the hell, this is affecting them, too.

Welcome to what happens when the Republican Party knowingly paralyzes and destroys the system of checks and balances so carefully created by people so much more clever - but far less venal - than they.

Happy 250th, folks.

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