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It is appropriate, really, that our empty suit of a president will deliver his first speech to Congress to a mostly empty chamber. Joe Biden will look out to a sea of empty seats, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. It makes one ponder – why is he even going through with the exercise?
Biden will speak to an in-person audience of only about 200 people. Traditionally, a joint address to Congress is delivered by a president in the first year of his term, at the invitation of the Speaker of the House. Next year, he will deliver a State of the Union address. Though a speech is not required, one has been delivered in person since Woodrow Wilson’s presidency in 1913. Presidents take advantage of a congressional audience to try to garner support for their agendas. This year, with the country so deeply divided, there is little hope that Biden will change anyone’s mind about anything. The address is being delivered late this year. Since 1934, it has been deliver
Today brings news of a colossal collision.
You may be familiar with famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.
One of his best-selling books:
A few selections:
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.
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Liberals are savaging him for this today on social media, out of all proportion to the gravity of the offense. I understand the temptation to pile on Cruz when he engages in mindless populist virtue-signaling, which is roughly 97 percent of his political repertoire and is doubtless what’s driving his recent decision to go maskless. But the Party Of Science™ isn’t demonstrating a fine appreciation for actual science when it freaks out over an immunized person ditching his mask at this stage of the pandemic.
In fact, one could argue that Cruz is doing some good by treating vaccination as the path out of social restriction. People on both sides have criticized the public-health bureaucracy for “underselling” the vaccine by urging those who’ve been immunized to stay away from bars and restaurants, keep wearing masks, and generally go on behaving as if they hadn’t gotten their shots to begin with.
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