A Poem I Like

 

It’s Important I Remember that the Moral Arc of the Universe Bends—

Cortney Lamar Charleston

but it doesn’t break, and neither breaks toward justice nor away from it. It simply bends, as the bow does before propelling the arrow where it may, agnostic to everything but flight. I don’t mean to make morality a weapon in this way, but it already is one and has been for some time. The shackles, after all, were explained as saving us from ourselves, our naked savagery, though it was their whip that licked us and left a kind of tactile text on our bodies. The Bible will have a man beating on someone as easily as it will have another taking one, turning the other cheek, civilly disobedient even when the bombs blow up in their church, not to say saying no to violence isn’t commendable, just to say a strong case can be made for cracking a skull or two like an everyday egg in hopes whatever golden light resides inside shines through, throughs the crimson tide for the rest of time so the tide will, mercifully, recede.

Copyright © 2021 by Cortney Lamar Charleston. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on May 3, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets.

This Week in Organized Crime

 It looks like someone ought to be keeping track:

• Trump apologist and Big Lie enabler Sidney Powell is facing both a $1.3 billion defamation suit from voting machine vendor Dominion Systems and an effort by the state of Michigan to sanction her over her Big Lie activities in that state, plus $12,000 in attorney fees. In the Dominion suit, her attorneys are - seriously - arguing that  

  “no reasonable person” would believe that her false claims and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election were “truly statements of fact.”

   The Michigan Attorney General has asked the court's permission to include those remarks as evidence in a suit asking Powell and others to be sanctioned. 

  “As lawyers, fidelity to the law is paramount.  These individuals worked to further conspiracy theories in an effort to erode public trust in government and dismantle our systems of democracy. Their actions are inexcusable.”  

•  Deep State believer and Orange Acolyte Victoria Toensing had her house raided by the FBI, evidently as part of the same investigation the feds are conducting into Rudy Giuliani's business dealings in Ukraine. They got her phone.

• Donald Trump, Jr. has his own problems stemming from an investigation into the Trump inaugural celebrations that directed hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Trump Hotel, which apparently tripled its room rates for the events. Mother Jones is reporting sworn statements by Junior are contradicted in numerous emails, planning documents and perhaps even by testimony his sister Ivanka gave in connection to the same investigation

• And Rudy Giuliani's troubles persist with that FBI raid that snagged his electronics and offered his son Andrew the opportunity to show us all why he's been kept away from media all this time. 

  "When federal agents raided my father’s home at dawn yesterday morning, the Biden Justice Department sent a clear message to America: If it can happen to the former mayor who led New York City through 9/11, it can happen to you, too."

Another Last Time

 In today's chapter of The Last Time I'll Do This Before I Retire ...

Tomorrow, May 3, 2021, is the last Monday of my working life.

Pulled the Trigger...

Waiting for the bullet to leave the barrel. I submitted my resignation yesterday. Just two weeks before I retire. 

Still waiting to see how I feel about that.

Dunning-Kruger Chart of Current Politics

 Sadly, this very accurate chart includes Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, my mis-Representative in Congress. 

Sunday Menu April 25, 2021

 Tonight's dinner will include:

• Grilled boneless ribeye
• Asparagus alla Carbonara
• Bacon and Egg Potato Salad

Paired with a 2017 Pas Robles Syrah

Antifa on the Danube

 I snapped this from a riverboat cruising the Danube, somewhere near Austria.