Routine Revelations

Finished reading: The Jesus Driven Life by 📚Michael Hardin. The author’s use of the work of Rene Girard to understand humanity, and from that understand Jesus and by extension God is compelling.

It’s ironic that people who mock the idea of college students equating speech to violence whenever they react to somebody saying things they don’t like then have college students arrested for saying things they don’t like. It’s really all about control.

I am beginning to think that while much focus is on the upcoming Presidential election what may be more important is Democrat majorities in the Senate and House. Only a single party majority of both houses makes impeachment a real power over the President. Trump could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and a Republican Senate would not find him guilty. It will also take a Democrat majority to make any reform of the Supreme Court possible.

In my opinion the Presidential Immunity case before the Supreme Court could be the most consequential to the future of the United States of any case in my life time. The case raises the question of whether Richard Nixon was right in his claims that a President of the United States can never go before the court, that they are not really bound by the rule of law. Had Gerald Ford not given Nixon a pardon it is likely that the Supreme Court in that day would have heard a case similar to the one before them now for Trump.

I can see a Supreme Court of justices who claim to be originalists proclaim that the President is above the law because the U.S. Constitution has holes as it is made of words. When fundamentalists only look for words and ignore meaning or intent that enables them to promote an ideology. The originalist ideology seems intent on returning us to past centuries in which white men held all the power and for which liberty only applied.

If the United States is a nation based on the rule of law, and the Supreme Court says that rule of law does not apply to the President, how can the republic remain based on the rule of law?

It is draft day in Detroit!

The 2024 NFL Draft is tomorrow and Detroit is buzzing. This is a time when I wish I were still working at the RenCen, I am sure the energy of the event is palpable.

I wish that I could use the glossary function in Drummer for my micro.blog posts so that links to pages I frequently refer to, like my now page, are automatically generated.

Finished reading: The Divine Dance by Richard Rohr 📚 Trinity matters to the extent that our understand of God matters, which does matter because we become the God that we worship.

I’ve added a blogroll to my Daynotes blog to checkout how it works. I think I prefer the blogroll to be a tab on that site rather than a block on the right of the page because it looks out of place and doesn’t render well on the iPad Mini.

The weather today felt more like mid July rather than mid April, with temperature approaching 80 degrees. I very much enjoyed my walk tonight.

Finished reading: The Trouble with Resurrection by Bernard Brandon Scott 📚

First flowering tree to bloom this year, as always.

I watched an introduction to AI video yesterday in which the presenter went to great lengths to try and convince me that AI is really ok and we really don’t have anything to worry about. The problem I have with AI is that I have lived through the birth and growth of the Internet and through that I’ve learned that software is just an amplification of humanity. As long as there are humans who see other humans as nothing more than a means to the ends of their wealth we have much to fear about any software that amplifies human failings.