The American Human: When Basketball Coaches Are More Moral and Decent than Our President

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

When Basketball Coaches Are More Moral and Decent than Our President

Trump has caused an eruption over a fundamental American right, embedded in the First Amendment, not just to protest, but to speak freely. And the Supreme Court has made clear that actions are speech. Hell, they've made clear that money is speech, for chrissake.

Greg Sargent put it best about our Dear Leader:

Trump's rage tweets escalate when he is losing bigly, and today's NFL lunacy is no exception. My new post:https://t.co/QAT8FDYwwq
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 26, 2017

The term commander-in-chief doesn't come to mind. Big-ass baby does.

Meanwhile, two coaches tell it like it actually is.

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich: Time to decide "the decent America we all thought we had and want is more important" than Pres. Trump's conduct. pic.twitter.com/YgEwnSniWf
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) September 25, 2017

That's some real leadership.

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My General Principles

1. Civilized societies require the rule of law.
2. Science is my preferred method for examining and understanding reality.
3. Religion is superstition.
4. An educated society is a healthy society.
5. Democratic governments are by their very nature socialist.
6. Market economies are by their very nature capitalist.
7. Markets are not (entirely) efficient or rational and thus require regulation.
8. Don’t confuse politics with public policy.
9. Civil discourse requires rational argument, even if yelling or stomping your feet or name-calling is more fun.
10. If you consider making stuff up a viable tactic, you are disallowed from civil discourse.
11. Puritanism is America’s original sin.
12. Income redistribution is good for society, hoarding is not.
13. Everybody, from time to time, needs help.

About the American Human

The American Human is written by Calvin Ross, a retired teacher who at various points in life has been a musician, woodworker, restaurateur, narrator, English teacher in Japan, novelist, technology journalist, and private tutor to Japanese children here in the U.S.

Happily residing in the wine country of Sonoma County north of San Francisco, Calvin has lived in the Philippines, the Netherlands, and the aforementioned Japan, as well as in Chicago, Colorado, Georgia, and many different towns in California, including, of all places, the Mojave Desert.

Calvin, you may note quickly, is a liberal progressive who doesn't think being called a socialist is all that bad, especially since he sort of would like living in Denmark if it weren't so cold. He blogs because he can.