I can hold up the January 6th fish!
and a little toy January 6th ship!
and some milk on a January 6th dish!
and look!
I can hop up and down on the "Charlottesville!" ball,
but that is not all!
Oh, no.
That is not all...
Such was my response to George Thomas’s praise of Liz Cheney’s call for a bipartisan commission to investigate January 6th. Over at The Constitutionalist. When more prosy and polite, I said this in the comment: “A commission one could actually have faith in, that in Representative Cheney's mind some unspecified ‘we’ would appoint, would be worthwhile, and would likely support some of the charges Senator McConnell made (in his final impeachment speech) about Trump's behavior that day, although it would embarrass many others as well... ...but, since we've entered the realm of the fantastical, may we dare imagine a similar commission, backed by the WAPO, Cheney, and The Constitutionalist too, that might investigate the events of another date, November 3rd? Why isn't Thomas calling also for that?”
Other fine literature comes to mind:
Always from the beginning there was to me all living as repeating. This is now a description of loving repeating as a being. This is now a history of learning to listen to repeating… Much loving repeating has to be in a being so that that one can listen to all the repeating in every one.
Gertrude Stein, Introduction to The Making of Americans
Ah, when you were young, you said “Boy is that Gertrude a weird one!” not knowing just how much of the fabric of your own life, and especially that of your society, would pretty much follow her script.
Great stuff, Carl.
I took Constitutional law with George Thomas at CMC, and learned an amazing amount from him. An outstanding teacher, and unbelievably sharp- but unfortunately I have seen signs well before this that he has gone to the dark side (in his particular case, that something like a scheme of Rawlsian public reason should be imposed on our American regime)
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/691160
FYI- it's looking like this commission is happening
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/19/gop-mccarthy-jan-6-commission-489598