Because I feel compelled to let you all know that, just because I’m not blogging about a particular topic doesn’t mean that I don’t think that it’s important. I just don’t think I have anything to say about it.
The downed Malaysian plane: this is bad all around, but I just don’t have an answer. The idea of placing sanctions on Russia still seems bizarre to me — but the report that France is continuing in its plans to sell weaponry to Russia is pretty appalling.
The violence in Iraq, including increasing reports that ISIS is expelling ancient Christian communities and destroying ancient churches and monasteries: again, shocking. What to do?
Gaza? Well, short of tweeting my Give-It-To-Egypt (and bribe them to take it) solution to the State Department, it’s just distressing. The US is now prohibiting flights to Tel Aviv because a Hamas rocket has landed in the vicinity? While at the same time, the message from the media is that Israel is just a bunch of bullies beating up on poor Hamas — at least the message communicated by the images of dead Gazan children.
Today’s news, that two courts came to conflicting decisions on whether the ObamaCare language that a “state-established exchange” gets subsidies applies to the federally-run exchange: of course, the administration’s defiant announcement that this changes nothing is concerning, but I don’t have enough legal background to know whether there’s legal precedent in either direction — though it worries me that the argument in favor of the administration’s position is basically, “it would be too inconvenient to stop subsidies.”
So once again, it’s Serenity-Prayer blogging: the wisdom (I hope) to shut up about topics where I just can’t offer anything.
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