Thinking about recent court rulings & Alabama a thought occurred to me. If an embryo is considered a “child” could parents who have frozen embryos have a deduction for each of their “children” on their income tax return? Example: a couple has 15 frozen embryos can they deduct 15 children as dependents? Especially since they have to spend significant money to keep the embryos frozen & viable!
Not sure whether I should laugh or run screaming out of the house! This is, hopefully, just hyberbole, but it is a terrifying glimpse into what could happen unless this country gets its act together. Since I'm old and have already been classified as vermin, I haven't got much pull anywhere, but I will keep reading (especially your essays, Fitz) and throwing out my 2 cents worth every chance I get. Thank you!
Makes me want to cry. I am going to the Heard Museum and the Native American Festival today. At least I'll be amongst civilized people instead of Christian Nationalist heathens.
Samuel Adams, that brilliant instigator of "Let's throw $1 million worth of tea into Boston Harbor" without checking the tide charts first, insuring the stench of rotting tea and dead fish permeated most of Massachusetts for months, wanted the new nation to be a THEOCRACY. A PURITAN theocracy with no public performances of plays or music, no "loud" colors of clothing (black and grey only), and no public or personal celebration of pagan holidays like Christmas. He was pushed to the edges of the revolutionary movement after the Tea Party vandalism by his much more intelligent cousin, John Adams, and the Bill Gates of his day, John Hancock. It was John Adams who championed the separation of church and state: "The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . . . [In] the formation of the American governments . . . it will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of heaven. . . . These governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses."
Oh that the "originalists" would have THAT quote posted in their chambers!
We are going backwards into the dark ages.
Just the name of tRump makes me nauseated! But good on ya for crafting a clever rip on the Alabama supremes.
Thinking about recent court rulings & Alabama a thought occurred to me. If an embryo is considered a “child” could parents who have frozen embryos have a deduction for each of their “children” on their income tax return? Example: a couple has 15 frozen embryos can they deduct 15 children as dependents? Especially since they have to spend significant money to keep the embryos frozen & viable!
I can’t decide which is more frightening, their fealty to the imaginary man in the sky or their Dear Leader from Mar-a-Lago.
Not sure whether I should laugh or run screaming out of the house! This is, hopefully, just hyberbole, but it is a terrifying glimpse into what could happen unless this country gets its act together. Since I'm old and have already been classified as vermin, I haven't got much pull anywhere, but I will keep reading (especially your essays, Fitz) and throwing out my 2 cents worth every chance I get. Thank you!
What happened to separation of church and state? Doesn’t that apply to the justice system? Hmm 🤔 guess not!
Horrifying indeed. The only thing missing is "Dictator Trump" or "Emperor Trump" instead of "President". Or perhaps "His Holiness" or "His Majesty"??
I believe his/its preferred terms are: His Hineyness, His Royal Assholiness or His Imperious Travesty.
You have painted in words a possible alternative future. I feel a dark fear of it. What hath the Council of Nicea wrought?
I’m hoping you aren’t as good at telling the future as you are at pointing out the ridiculous.
Terrifying indeed!
I hope you’re describing an alternate universe, but I fear you’re describing ours - which you are 🤬
Makes me want to cry. I am going to the Heard Museum and the Native American Festival today. At least I'll be amongst civilized people instead of Christian Nationalist heathens.
Have a wonderful time!
Samuel Adams, that brilliant instigator of "Let's throw $1 million worth of tea into Boston Harbor" without checking the tide charts first, insuring the stench of rotting tea and dead fish permeated most of Massachusetts for months, wanted the new nation to be a THEOCRACY. A PURITAN theocracy with no public performances of plays or music, no "loud" colors of clothing (black and grey only), and no public or personal celebration of pagan holidays like Christmas. He was pushed to the edges of the revolutionary movement after the Tea Party vandalism by his much more intelligent cousin, John Adams, and the Bill Gates of his day, John Hancock. It was John Adams who championed the separation of church and state: "The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . . . [In] the formation of the American governments . . . it will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of heaven. . . . These governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses."
Oh that the "originalists" would have THAT quote posted in their chambers!
John Adams is the mensch
From the earliest days, more deaths have been caused by organized religion than by any other means.
Welcome back to the Dark Ages… Truly the end of an ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)
A literal "OMG!" I cannot believe what I just read.