A Stitch in Haste

Several recent stories, from reports that over 1% of the American adult population is now incarcerated, to the passing of Mildred Loving, to the imminent gay marriage ruling in California, all remind me of this quest for judicial sanity:


Time to time and place to place indeed...

Previous Kip Clips here.

Congress has approved, apparently by veto-proof margins, yet another farm bill that yet again benefits rich farmers at the expense of all taxpayers. This while the ethanol mandate mania continues to artificially inflate the price of corn (and, thanks to substitution effects, other crops as well).

Will the chief executive, widely thought to be an illiterate moron, be so easily manipulated by the corn lobby?

Oh, sorry, wrong "chief executive widely thought to an illiterate moron" —


Of course, Robert Graves' Claudius was not an illiterate moron, so perhaps the analogy isn't all that appropriate after all. Still, Hail Bush! for his intended veto of this corrupt, rent-seeking farm bill.

Yesterday I noted some theocrat malcontents whining about how the IRS, in attempting to enforce minimal restrictions on their political activities as a reasonable condition of enjoying tax-exempt status, actually have the gall to hypocritically cry "First Amendment" and "separation of church and state."

These are, of course, the same theocrats who lie about the United States being a "Christian nation" and who have apoplectic fits at suggestions that maybe, just maybe, the Ten Commandments does not belong in a secular courthouse or classroom or that maybe, just maybe, legislative sessions should not be opened with prayers, especially sectarian prayers.

In circumstances like this, perhaps it would help to recall just how far we have indeed come and to recall exactly what kind of church-and-state relations some theocrats would unhesitatingly return to if they could:


I can just imagine the conversations taking place in Catholic and other theocrat offices at the moment: "If Massachusetts and California start spreading their filth in America, then we are in for trouble — all of us!"

They are already in trouble.

Remember the scene early in Superman: The Movie where Marlon Brando retorts to Trevor Howard: "You would accuse me of insurrection?"

That's how I felt, in this context of this recent post calling out an idiot who threw M&Ms at a police officer investigating a hit and run, when another commenter called me a "cop sucker" —

"Kip" is the kind of guy I think of when I think of Mencken's remark that Americans get the government they deserve, and they deserve to get it good and hard. Should Kip someday find himself under the jackboots of America's "finest," I sure hope there is no one around to squander any sympathy on his behalf.

The point, of course, if not whether I "ever find myself under the jackboot of 'America's finest,'" but whether I do so because I illegally hurled M&Ms at them. It scares me that some libertarians don't seem to comprehend the difference.

In any case, an adolescent comment like that deserves an adolescent* Kip Clip:


Another isolated incident.

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*Matt Dallas, who played a teenager in this program, was actually 25. So he qualifies for designation as a Sunday CuteTuber™.

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