I’m baffled. Pretty much all the time now.
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The most fitting tribute R.E.Lee ever received was the burial of Union dead in the front yard of his palatial estate in Arlington, VA.
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Will that crane fit through the front door of The White House?
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“See?” Finch bellowed, pointing into the bowl at his bowel movement. “Look at the size of that coil!” Hope leaned in closer, as if inspecting an engagement ring in a jewelry display case.
I peered over Hope’s shoulder.
Agnes came shuffling down the hallway. “What’s all the fuss about? Why are you all crowded into the bathroom?” She shouldered her way into the room and looked at all of us looking into the toilet bowl. Her mouth fell open. “What is this?” Finch’s face reddened as his excitement grew. “See? See the way the tip of the coil breaks up out of the surface of the water? Holy Father!” “Yeah, Dad. I see it. It’s pointing straight up out of the bowl,” Hope said, ever the good daughter.
“Exactly,” Finch boomed. “Exactly. The tip is pointing up.” He stood up straight. “Do you know what this means?” Agnes went to his side and pulled at his arm. “Doctor, please,” she said. “Please calm down.” “Agnes, go get a spatula,” he ordered.
“Doctor, please,” Agnes said, pulling him harder.
He jerked his arm away and gave her a shove out of the room. “A spatula, Agnes!” he screamed.
She scurried out of the room like Edith Bunker.
“What does it mean, Dad?” Hope asked.
Natalie and I looked at each other, but then looked away because we knew we’d crack up and Finch would yell at us.
“It means our financial situation is turning around, that’s what it means. It means things are looking up. The shit is pointing out of the pot and up toward heaven, to God.” As if she’d just won the Publisher’s Clearinghouse Sweepstakes, Hope screamed. She screamed and clapped and kissed her father’s cheek.
“There, there, Hope,” Finch said. “That’s my girl.” He looked at me and Natalie. “Can you see how important this is? God has a tremendous sense of
humor. He is the funniest man in the universe. And this is His way of saying that things are going to turn around for us now.” I was mortified but fascinated. Natalie hid her face in her hands and moaned.
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It’s almost as if treason and armed insurrection were bad things.
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And that time was:
the removal of the Lee statue, which took place around 3 a.m.
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Future generations might have to (gasps) learn to read and practice deductive reasoning.
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That’s such a far-left loony fringe thing to even say. Every Murcan has the Jeebus-given constushunal right to secede from the union and wage armed war against it if they think the laws are unconstushunal. You must be one of them commies.
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Yes. But this change happened 4 decades AFTER the Civil War. It, like most confederate statues, had very little to do with “remembrance” and was more aimed at delivering another wave of overt public racism.
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Then we’ll have statues and monuments to deductive reasoning?
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It is insane that for decades we have exhibited a statue of Robert E. Lee, the biggest enemy and traitor to the United States in our capitol! I am astounded we are just getting around to removing this now!
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Just the big balloon.
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Trump is likely best described as the polar opposite of George Washington, who famously could not tell a lie.
This is about media. Fascists have money, and media already got free in the internet age. The zealots always outwork the rest of us, and it is the zealots who constitute the opposition in this country.
Good thing they are more likely to die of Covid. At the same time, you’d have thought they’d understand their own God better.
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Over a century.
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Cancel culture will be holding that honor back from Trump.
“Understand their own God”
Would require self reflection.
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Let this serve as a warning to the 126 Republican members of the Sedition Caucus who would upend the certified results of an election to install an autocrat with pro-Russia sympathies.
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