Trump, however, emphatically failed to secure the endorsement of Vicente Fox<\/a>.<\/p>\n And Max Lucado isn\u2019t impressed with him<\/a> either. (For non-members of the evangelical tribe: Lucado isn\u2019t much of a political guy or a culture-warrior. He\u2019s got the whole yes-but-of-course-we\u2019re-all-Republicans-and-anti-abortion-and-anti-marriage white-evangelical thing, but he\u2019s mainly a devotional and inspirational figure. And\u00a0he\u2019s got a yooge audience.)<\/p>\n \u2022 News item: \u201cGeorgia Insurance Agency Requires Employees To Carry Guns At Work<\/a>.\u201d You don\u2019t need a team of actuaries to calculate the likeliest liability risk here.<\/p>\n \u2022 \u201cThere are a few facts that are pretty clearly on the record, right? Ted Cruz was born in Canada in 1970. The Zodiac murders I believe started in 1968 in California. And the final authenticated Zodiac letter was sent in 1974, as I understand. I\u2019m just saying we shouldn\u2019t rule anything out<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 NABA NABA Hey!<\/a><\/p>\n (NABA stands for \u201cNot As Bad As<\/a>\u201d \u2014 a popular rationalization for atrocities and other behavior that we rightly condemn when committed by the Bad Guys, but excuse when committed by us because we\u2019re Not As Bad As them. It\u2019s the popular standard for torture defenders and for those who justify telling lies about Satanic baby-killers, witches, outside agitators, etc.)<\/p>\n \u2022 \u201cHe is an alcoholic, violent, depressed,\u201d the petition for a protection from abuse order said<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s my belief he is in desperate need of medical & psychological help.\u201d<\/p>\n But\u00a0while the protection order was granted, that had no bearing on the man\u2019s right to be part of our nation\u2019s well-regulated militia, so he got to keep his assault rifle and automatic pistol<\/a>.<\/p>\n I was going to refer to that Kansas bloodbath as the \u201clatest mass-shooting,\u201d but that\u2019s no longer true<\/a>. In neither case were the shooters in any way influenced by foreign terrorism \u2014 just the mundane lethal violence of American men toward American women<\/a>, so lawmakers won\u2019t be concerned that there\u2019s anything they need to do to respond to such things.<\/p>\n \u2022 Here\u2019s some poetry appropriate to this moment in American politics (and a reminder that Adam Driver really needs to star in a Joey Ramone biopic):<\/p>\n![\"1902waterboarding\"](\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/52\/2016\/02\/1902waterboarding.jpg\")
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