Havdalah (Shavua Tov) – The Meta-Bug

Marched for science today. We all got together and spent over four hours outside on a ridiculously cold and drizzly late April day agreeing that we like science, that we are sorry that the current administration doesn’t, and that we wish that would change. The only hope that anyone saw was that Tangerine Jesus might get a chronic disease for which there is no cure, in which case he might fund research for it. It wouldn’t cover much, but it’s a start.

I was there with a street band, and I have to admit that if you’re gonna protest, it’s more fun playing music than it is listening to speeches. Google “march for science signs” if you’re in need of a laugh.

Back to the workaday world.

Just a few links about our ever-crumbling separation of Church and State. And I do mean Church, because it ain’t gonna be synagogues, mosques, or temples.

This from the Washington Post on repealing of the ‘Johnson Amendment, ‘ which would allow tax-exempt houses of worship to become mouthpieces for politicians.

And this from New York Magazine on the devout Christian physician

14-willie-parker.w710.h473.2x — Dr. Willie Parker, AP photo.

who travels the South performing abortions for women who need them, which he feels is a moral obligation.

Can you fall asleep like this? Were you ever able to?

Asleep on a Roadtrip, Boston to Columbus.

From “In The Loop” (2009):

Lt. Gen. George Miller: Twelve thousand troops. But that’s not enough. That’s the amount that are going to die. And at the end of a war you need some soldiers left, really, or else it looks like you’ve lost.

From “Duck Soup” (1933):

Another Cabinet Member: Gentlemen, gentlemen. Enough of this. How about taking up the tax?

Firefly: How about taking up the carpet?

Member: I still insist we take up the tax!

Firefly: [to his secretary] He’s right—you’ve got to take up the tacks before you take up the carpet.

Member: I give all my time and energy to my duties, and what do I get?

Firefly: You get awfully tiresome after a while.

Member: Sir, you try my patience.

Firefly: I don’t mind if I do. You must come over and try mine some time.

Member: That’s the last straw: I resign. I wash my hands of the whole business.

Firefly: Good idea. You can wash your neck too.