So the first thing you heard this morning, courtesy of the brave people at NPR. How they do stuff like this every day is truly admirable.
Abused and betrayed: people with intellectual disabilities and an epidemic of sexual assault.
Sessions makes it through 2.5 hours of testimony with no bathroom breaks. He even drank a little water.
Other than that, it was a pretty unremarkable event. Sessions pouted, refused to answer questions, revealed that he doesn’t take notes, and has a really, really bad memory.
Following his testimony in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee today, many reporters were astounded at how well dressed and groomed the Attorney General was. “Sitting as I was, in front of Mr. Sessions’s table, I was quite impressed. In spite of clear damage to his memory functions, he was able to find not only all of the required items of clothing, but he even had matching socks.”
It is well known, of course, that he has people to drive him around, remind him of appointments, and put large-print prepared remarks in front of him, but his impersonation of a functioning elderly person was universally acknowledged as nothing short of brilliant. “It makes you think he could still find his car in a parking lot,” oozed Senator Risch of Idaho, not a man to give praise lightly.
Shavuah Tov. Impeach Drumpf.
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
who travels the South performing abortions for women who need them, which he feels is a moral obligation.
Lazy Journalism Day: Aggregating stuff you prob’ly read anyway.
I’m occupied with other things today, but there’s always time to make it look like I’m actually paying attention.
These things seemed worth reading today:
From the NY Times, on feminism’s embrace of anti-Zionism–which although they will scream to the heavens that it isn’t, indeed is actually a form of anti-Semitism–and the bind that it puts Jewish feminists in;
From the Atlantic, on why being poor in Bangladesh might be better than being poor in Mississippi;
This, from Vox.com on the Republicans’ plan to make us get sicker and die faster;
And this, about our increasing military involvement in Iraq and Syria.
The Meta-Bug 
