The 10th Justice

Trump's racist tweets aimed at members of the House of Representatives may be the most inciteful and accurate thing he has said during his first 2.5 years as president. Trump's comments telling the four women congressional representatives to go back to their countries and fix them because they are broken is correct. And they are doing just that. They have been elected to help a fix a broken government, one broken by the Republican attempt to hold on to the power though illegal and non-democratic methods. The Republican have found in Trump Thomas Mann's perfect representative of the faith based, irrational approach to life. In The Magic Mountain, Naptha, the Jewish convert to Catholicism and a  Jesuit says: Whatever profits man, that is the truth. In him all nature is comprehended, in all nature only he is created, and all nature only for him. He is the measure of all things, and his welfare is the sole and single criterion of truth. Any theoretic science which is wi...

Trump is going to school. Last week he joked with Putin about not interfering in the elections in the United States, essentially asking Putin to keep up the good work. He has learned from Putin how to send messages in public that are clearly illegal and antidemocratic. Conspiracy requires secrecy and intent to do harm. Trumps interaction with Putin was not done in public and the face-value message was legal. No law covers joking as as a way of reversing the meaning of his statement. But never the less, his interaction with Putin was conspiracy in plain sight. This week he is in North Korea visiting Kim Jong Un. His stated reason for going to North Korea is to convince the North Korea to stop making nuclear weapons and get rid of the ones they have. His real reason is to get a first hand look at how to run a country without the intervention of the people. How much easier Trump's job would be if he didn't have to run for election or talk to Nancy Pelosi! Next we'll have McC...