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I will never forgive, nor will I ever forget, the 126 out of 199 Republican United States Representatives, the 17 out of 26 Republican State Attorneys General, or Donald J. Trump (acting in his individual capacity) who joined Texas vs. Pennsylvania et al .     This was Texas A.G. Ken Paxton’s (above) suit against the states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin which sought to invalidate their votes in the 2020 presidential election.   Nor will I ever forgive or forget that Sen. Ted Cruz (below, R-TX) giddily agreed to argue the case before the Supreme Court.   Fortunately, the Court refused even to hear the case, sparing the nation one more mortifying moment.   As the 9-0 Court ordered on December 11, 2020: The State of Texas’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution. Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conduct...

Yesterday sunrise in Berlin was at 8:02 a.m.   Sunset was at 15:53.   Just 7 hours and 51 minutes of daylight.   I mention this for astronomical information only, since in between sunrise and sunset, the sun was nowhere to be seen.   The sky was a uniform leaden gray, all day.   But that’s not what’s getting me down.   We live in Northern Europe after all; short, cloudy days this time of the year are to be expected.   No, what’s bothering me is that the shade of gray I see all around me is nowhere to be heard in conversation.   Rhetoric has been rendered in two non-colors:   black or white.   Nuance has disappeared.   Uncertainty has taken a hike.   Logic is MIA.   Facts can’t hold a candle to fantasy, and conspiracy stalks the land, slaughtering truth left and right with its merciless scythe, as if truth were the province of either the Left or the Right--which it emphatically is not.   And yet we feel these days as...