Pathetic fallacy

You may recall from some English class that attributing human emotions to natural phenomena like weather is called pathetic fallacy.  For example, when the Lake Charles, Louisiana,* city council votes not to remove a Jim Crow monument called The South's Defenders from its pedestal, and then a hurricane does this:



Laura is a hellacious storm, but I like her sense of justice.  Someone should direct her toward Richmond, where Robert E. Lee still looms over the city.

Our scamp of the day is Ali-Asghar Abedi, who explains how he got Trump idolater Tomi Lahren to call him a jackass.  In colloquial Hindi.  Abedi says he did it because the Republican convention is "beyond satire," and I won't argue, although fooling Lahren is like teasing a dog.

The Senate's newest, griftiest Republican Kelly Loeffler is struggling in the polls and her WNBA team isn't bringing her much happiness either:  the Atlanta Dream joined most other basketball teams and a few baseball and soccer teams in a one-day strike to protest police brutality.  The most striking gesture was made by the Washington Mystic, who came on court in white shirts with one letter each spelling out JACOB BLAKE.  On the back were seven bullet holes.  Senator Kelly wishes they would just shut up and play, and she found an ally in Jared Kushner, who's glad the players are rich enough to "take a night off from work" without financial consequences.  Not like when he had to sell papers fourteen hours a day.  In the snow.  The right are always gobsmacked when rich, privileged Black people refuse to act like rich, privileged white people and vote Republican.  Maybe it's because they still get stopped, frisked, pulled over, handcuffed and even shot just like poor, unprivileged Black people.  Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers offered some insight, but Kushner still won't get it.

I'm warming to the idea that we need a Constitutional amendment prohibiting people from defining other people.  This was a bad idea when menarchic teenagers in Salem decided some harmless women were witches and it was a bad idea when the "one drop" rule declared people Black when that was even more of an obstacle course than it is now.   Now J.K. Rowling (and others) want to set rules for who is and isn't a woman.  Let's try you-be-you-and-I'll-be-me and see how that works for a couple centuries.

Having floated the idea that Kamala Harris isn't "really" Black (just as Elizabeth Warren wasn't "really" Native American), the R-Klan has decided Joe Biden isn't "really" Catholic and they have experts to prove it.  Lou Holtz knows about such things because he used to coach football at Notre Dame (home of Touchdown Jesus), while Sister Deirdre Byrne -- well, she showed up in full nun  burka.  (No, it's completely different from Ilhan Omar wearing a hijab, what's wrong with you?)



Their message was the same:  Only Trump can save the millions of crying babies from being late-term aborted because he's a true Christian who has never even used a condom, that's entirely the woman's problem, and Marla Maples was lying when she said he told her to get an abortion, FAKE NEWS.  Biden would make abortion mandatory and also take away all your meat.  (That was a different speech by a different pathological liar pious Christian.)  Has Biden ever held up a Bible on a street foggy with tear-gas?  QED.  (That stands for "Q Exterminates Democrats.")  What is Biden?  Biden is a fake Catholic.  (If you phrase it like the Baltimore Catechism, it has more of a punch.)

Bad news, Lou:  The Fighting Irish are not Irish.  Most of them are African American.  So why should anyone listen to you?

Only one more night of Schizophrenia americanensis.  Junior, don't mix coke with Daddy's Adderall.  Kimberly, speed kills.  I'll be watching The Palm Beach Story.  



*Correction:  It was actually the Calcasieu Parish Police Jury.  The South, huh?