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Nonstop nonsense

Nonsense need not be imagined. We are surrounded by it. It is free.

Huge amounts of nonsense are found on every side, on almost any issue: politics, economics, religion, sports. All available to citizens around the clock. One may live on a steady diet of make-believe.

How much nonsense can the public bear? Tests show people have a limitless need for fiction. This is because they know more nonsense is coming and they are eager to know what’s next. Thus, nonsense has no limits. Humans love mysterious claptrap, spectacular bluster and impossible dreams.

Risto Marttinen

Lexington

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Cringe-o-rama: Mitch McConnell, lower standards for nursing home inspections, UK shoe fetish, us. Us?

By Herald-Leader readers

February 15, 2019 04:51 PM

Cringe-worthy McConnell

In opinion pieces in the Herald-Leader and on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Sen. Mitch McConnell has opposed the Democratic Party’s legislation to reform the methods states use for electing members of Congress. He characterizes the bill as an unprecedented power grab by Democrats. He casts himself as a defender of the constitutional rights of state legislatures to prescribe the time, place and manner for holding elections for U.S. senators and members of the House of Representatives. He pledges that he will not let such a bill come before the Senate for a vote (as an aside, how democratic is a system based on procedures that allow one person to block a bill from being considered by the full Senate?).

As a retired University of Kentucky law professor, I cringe that one of our graduates would make an argument that ignores a basic tenet of constitutional interpretation — read the whole sentence/clause. The Constitution, Article I, Section 4, states: “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations...”