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Why making fun of stupid, phony and absurd institutions and people is appropriate and useful
The Supreme Court has declared that a microscopic group of cells, a zygote, is a person with all the rights of a human being. The Court also holds that a corporation is a person.
Who isn’t a person? A woman. She is now legally an appendage of a zygote, an appendage that is legally obligated to serve as an incubator. Any failure to deliver a healthy baby is liable to be charged as a criminal offense. Oh, yeah, a woman doesn’t have the rights of a person, but she has legal obligations.
Let’s say it out loud: the Court is ridiculous, absurd, a joke. The majority is thoroughly dishonest — everyone knows the “conservative” members of the Court were selected specifically to make this awful ruling. The “reasoning” (in this case, mumbo jumbo justifications) are just pro forma. Anyone taking them seriously is a fool.
The ridiculous Court isn’t a new phenomenon. We saw it in 2000 when the Court overruled the American voters and put George W. Bush in the White House. With similar absurd and obviously partisan “reasoning” (sic) the Court earned our ridicule and contempt. We should have massed in front to their place of business right then and demanded they go quietly. But we didn’t.
