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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, February 23, 2022

February 23, 2022 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Arend van Dam, Netherlands, politicalcartoons.com



Today at the Editor’s glance: Weather:

In Court: The trial of Philip Martin on a life felony and a second degree felony counts of molesting the minor daughter of an ex-girlfriend continues for its third day, including jury selection day, before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse. See background here.

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brunei flagNotably: It is Brunei’s National Day. The small Muslim country tattooed on the northwest shoulder of Borneo drew attention in 2019 when its sultan declared that gays and adulterers would be stoned to death. He retreated after a worldwide outcry, both for the keeping-up-with-the-Taliban impulse and the government’s attempted justification for the barbarity: “Its aim,” the minister of foreign affairs said of the stoning law, “is to educate, deter, rehabilitate and nurture rather than to punish. It seeks to strike the right balance between protecting the rights of the accused person and the rights of the victims and their families.” Curiously, and stoning aside, I hear the very same barbaric reasoning in our own courts when American and Floridian punishments, always excessive, often more sadistic than merely punitive, are justified, the “rights of the victims” always brandished as somehow absolving of any second-guessing, even though the rights of the accused and the rights of the victim are on ethically different planes. Of course the victim has rights. But those rights aren’t being infringed by a lesser or greater punishment. In effect, victim’s and criminal’s rights have nothing to do with each other, and cannot be compared in anyway way, unless the right of the victim is judged only to the degree that it finds expression in vengefulness. See the minister of foreign affairs’ actual letter here. On an equally grim note, it is “Defender of the Fatherland Day” in Russia today, a date that marks the birth of the Red Army. It is generally observed with parades. It will obviously be observed with a parade through Ukraine. On a happier note, it is Handel’s birthday (1685). So with sadness, see the video below, a performance at Russian Philharmonic Hall of some Handel with a jazzy twist.

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“The most devastating of these ‘social genocides’–the one that swept over the Ukraine in the early 1930s–can even be said to have had a racist overtone. As we now know, this genocide was due to a famine deliberately provoked and organized by Stalin. The weapon of mass starvation was used to crush a population of independent peasants–the kulaks–who were dead set against the collectivization of their lands, but it was also used against a people who were Ukrainian and thus non-Russian. As many victims then perished in the Ukraine as a result of this political famine as later died throughout Europe as a result of the anti-Jewish Holocaust. (I trust the reader will not suppose that I am trying to make the Holocaust sound “banal”; I am simply trying to treat the Ukrainian genocide in the same serious fashion.)”

–From Jean-Francois Revel’s “The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information,” translated from the French by Curtis Cate (1991, originally, “La Connaissance inutile,” 1988).

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Maupassant's illusions | Music of the woods | Better lie than doubt | John Cheever's premature eulogy of John Updike | Updike's daily death of selves | Old age and habit according to Wharton | Marmontel's Belisaire's truth | The typical ancient Roman | Salman Rushdie realizes some people will never like him | Uncle Willy's Republicans and Democrats | Cicero on not knowing | A tyrant's culture | American regression | Bernard Rustin's Spokesmen of the Confederacy | Aged relic | Barthelme's alternative to intelligent conversation | On drunkenness | Bastards and sons of bitches | Junot Diaz's trauma |  Loyalty to a dream country | Sorrow for the Levant | Nixon resigns | Cross Creek | To die laughing | America's Hiroshima experiment | Aged beyond repair | Virtue without self-glorification | Adrift | James Baldwin dares everything | GOP menace to society | Human misery | Inflexibility as death | | Kant's Enlightenment | Belhumeur's ethics | Israel's bigoted nation-state law | More tolerant empires | American weather | Red Smith on dismal Olympics | Louis Brandeis on clear and present freedom of speech | Ishmael Reed | Don't tread on me | Wicker on LBJ's presidency | Marxist reality check | | Nelson Mandela invokes MLK | Fishermen's honor | Nuclear dawn in Almogorodo | Eric Hobsbawm's Enlightenment | | Ritchie Robertson's Enlightenment | When you don't know what you don't know | Leaving Lebanon | Rheumatic fever's side-effect | | Risk of becoming imbeciles | The blubbering of America | Why Vidal hates good citizenship history | An Elsa Morante bit | Woke aesthetics | Let America Be America Again | American artist | Custer's enduring myths | Orwellian politics | History as a weapon | Political correctness improved America

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  1. The Geode says

    February 23, 2022 at 2:39 pm

    In the meantime, OUR borders are spilling and flooding like a broken dam, WE can’t afford food and gas, OUR homeless and displaced are causing havoc, and OUR inner-city communities have more terrorists than “Boko Haram”.
    …but yeah. Ukraine takes precedence over America

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