There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said "Faith is believing what you know ain't so."
I found this first referenced in James' essay on religious belief. Although I've read Puddn'head Wilson, I'm ashamed to say reading James didn't trigger any memory of it from Twain. I'm glad to have my ignorance corrected.
Ain't the internet grand?
Meanwhile:
***Rasmussen*** https://t.co/CNmChg7M7m— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) May 27, 2020
yesterday https://t.co/NHqGYV3bij— George Conway (@gtconway3d) May 27, 2020
From the WASHINGTON EXAMINER! https://t.co/iHchfKvOJ9— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) May 27, 2020
The cracks in everything, as Leonard Cohen observed, is how the light gets in.
On the day we officially cross the threshold of 100,000 deaths from a pandemic, this is what's got him in a snit. https://t.co/0Yg1UqwUzd— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) May 27, 2020
Like I said last night: as soon as Trump could no longer do his two-hour campaign rallies from the White House, he got bored with the Coronavirus and just doesn't really care to deal with it anymore.— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 27, 2020
“100,000 people died, Joe, and all you did was try to help your friend the President. That's what you did. Every single morning on this show...You used and abused your position.”pic.twitter.com/lO9qP73sD9— “Ideas That Are Lying Around” (@_waleedshahid) May 27, 2020
Kinda the way I felt listening to Dan Crenshaw yesterday. Gotta agree with Maggie, too:
What's so amazing, still, is the idea that Trump never walked up to this line as candidate. https://t.co/bBxi9Fh6GD— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 27, 2020
I guess finally enough cracks to let the light in? And how many people's lives did we have to crack to do that, huh?
Right after the wall gets finished https://t.co/zsLxfmVbtz— Ramesh Ponnuru (@RameshPonnuru) May 27, 2020
I wrote about the Trump lip-sync comedy of Sarah Cooper et al, and how the best satire takes the words right out of his mouth. https://t.co/efB7Ol958D— James Poniewozik (@poniewozik) May 27, 2020
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