The Arc of the Moral Universe

We can only hope there is one...

According to the people who actually pay attention to this sort of thing, crime in Washington, D.C. is at an historic low which didn’t stop President Trump from claiming that Washington, D.C. is actually worse than Gotham City Before Batman and he’ll need to takeover Our Nation’s Capital to keep its residents safe from the kind of criminals who actually have the balls to get a gun and hold up a liquor store, as opposed to the kind of criminals who wear suits and ties and rob people with pen and paper while sitting comfortably in a luxurious board room that someone else paid for.

That being the case I thought it worthwhile to point out that the guy whining about crime in Washington, D.C. has 34 felony convictions.

If Trump wants to rid Washington, D.C. of criminals it would help a lot if he moved to Mar-a-Lago permanently.

And, yes, I already used that cartoon in one of my 172,000 baseball posts, but a lot of you don’t read those (your call, but you’re missing a great season…unfortunately it’s a great season that took place a decade ago) but here’s a cartoon about Trump taking over D.C. that I haven’t posted, so now we’re even.

Sort of.

This cartoon works a whole lot better if you know those are the countries Hitler invaded and just in case you don’t, I put Trump and his associates in semi-Nazi-looking uniforms as a visual hint and if all this is somewhat depressing, here’s a hopeful thought one of my sons expressed not long ago:

The Thousand Year Reich only lasted 12 years.

After 12 years, all their bullshit caught up with Adolf and His Merry Band of Psychopaths and let’s hope the same is true of Trump and His Enablers. (On the other hand, if you spend it hiding in an attic with Anne Frank, 12 years probably seemed like an Eternity.)

As George Harrison and the people who performed my last colonoscopy said:

All Things Must Pass.

This story continues to develop, but here’s what I’ve got so far:

Israel targeted a tent used by the media to kill Anas al-Sharif who had been reporting on the war for Al Jazeera and Israel claimed Sharif was the “head of a Hamas terrorist cell” but according to the BBC, Israel has offered little evidence to support their claim about Sharif. And for the crime of being in the tent at the same time as Sharif, three other journalists were killed and the lesson here is after a decade of anti-Trump cartoons, you might not want to stand next to me in the 10 Items Or Less lane.

And by the way…

This is not the first journalist Israel has killed and according to The Guardian, they set up a military unit tasked with identifying journalists they could smear as undercover Hamas fighters to blunt international criticism when they killed them.

Also according to the following article…

More than 180 Palestinian journalists reporting from the ground have been killed by Israeli attacks in less than two years and according to the Committee to Protect Journalists 26 of those journalists were targeted.

If you want to read more about this, here’s the link:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/15/israeli-military-unit-reportedly-tasked-with-linking-journalists-in-gaza-to-hamas

I’m friends with former Big League manager Clint Hurdle and he sends out daily emails that contain inspiring thoughts or interesting things to think about and one of them pointed out if you’re worried about how you’ll be remembered when you’re dead and gone, nobody gets to write their own epitaph.

That’s written by others so if you want to be remembered fondly, don’t be an asshole and treat other people like crap.

That being the case…

I can’t imagine History is going to be kind to Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin. So while it might not help us much right now this minute, console yourself with the thought that in the History Books Donald Trump is going to be remembered as a Self-Centered Horse’s Ass enabled by the people who thought we needed a Fourth Reich and Vlad’s probably going to be remembered as a vicious thug who started wars and killed his enemies and did a whole bunch of damage to the world.

It’s not much, but at least we’ve got that to look forward to.

P.S. Clint wrote a book containing some of the lessons he learned in the Big Leagues and if you like baseball, you can find his book on Amazon and I’ve already got my copy so the ball is now in your court.

So imagine you’re having a property line dispute with your asshole neighbor who seems to have a lot of property line disputes and the head of the Homes Association says he’s going to get involved and straighten things out, but then says you don’t need to be part of that discussion and he’ll let you know if half your backyard patio—including your new hot tub—now belongs to your neighbor.

The International Criminal Court has declared Vladimir Putin a War Criminal and he can’t travel to some countries or he might get arrested so being welcomed to the US and having the red carpet rolled out for him, literally…

Is a win for him and according to journalist Fareed Zakaria, Putin showed up planning to make no concessions and just flattered the living shit out of Trump—“Where do you get those long, red ties? I’ve always wanted a tie that went halfway to my kneecaps.”—and according to Fareed the fact that there was no deal is actually a good thing, because everyone was afraid Trump was going to give away half Ukraine’s backyard patio, visitation rights to their hot tub on alternate weekends and throw in Ukraine’s Weber grill to sweeten the deal.

In this case, no news is good news.

Today’s Lesson

“Karma” can sound kind of mystical like there’s some unseen force in the universe balancing things out, which I think is the wrong way to think about; I think “karma” is mostly logical and if you treat enough people like crap eventually they’ll be happy to return the favor and a lot of cultures have come up with the same idea.

The Bible warns that you’ll reap what you sow and Martin Luther King, Jr. said the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice and Nancy Sinatra warned us her boots were made for walking and while we may not be here to see it, eventually Donald Trump is going to pay for all his bullshit although I wish Karma would get her ass in gear and make that happen while I’m still alive to enjoy it.

Now here’s Nancy:

Having just watched the badly-lip-synched video and the vibrant Nancy Sinatra personality on display and the inflectionless performance of the song, I can only conclude that These Boots Were Made for Walkin’ (which came out in 1966) was the inspiration of The Walking Dead (which started in 2010).

Coincidence?

I think not.

BTW: The first comment under this video was someone saying the background dancer in blue was their grandmother which is a good reminder that every old person has a story to tell and since nobody else has shown much interest, I’m telling my own while I’m still alive to lie about it.

Have a good weekend everybody and if you’re tired of all that baseball crap, hang in there; we’re now in the postseason and the end’s in sight.

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