A moveable feast

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility to those who celebrate!  Not surprisingly, Trump and his type do not.  "We call on Joe Biden's failing campaign and White House to issue an apology to the millions of Catholics and Christians across America who believe tomorrow is for one celebration only -- the resurrection of Jesus Christ," said a release from campaign press sec Karoline Leavitt.  Clearly it was dictated by the Bible hustler himself.  The "failing" is a giveaway, as is the weird distinction between Catholics and Christians.  (Not Orthodox Christians, who celebrate the Resurrection on May 5 this year.)  A quick search reveals that March 31 is also National Crayon Day, Eiffel Tower Day, and the birthday of Gordie Howe.  

More important, it's the birthday of Cesar Chavez, who said, "Once social change begins it cannot be reversed.  You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.  You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride.  You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore."  He was thinking of farm workers but he could have been speaking of the transgendered, who face fear every day because of Trump and his kind -- those who need to define and degrade everyone else or they can't live with their secret self-loathing.  I wonder if Trump has noticed that Easter falls on a different Sunday every year.  He only began proclaiming his Christianism around 2015, so probably not.

Millions of Americans, including the Christian minority, are spending this day in many different ways.  Small children ran around the White House lawn rolling and hunting eggs and probably resisting Jill Biden's attempts to EGGucate them (a lot of eye-rolling, too, I'll bet).  Since eggs are Pagan symbols of spring and fertility, only an idiot would object to the long-standing ban on religious and political themes in their decoration.  Look, here's one now:  "Because @the Democrats are a Satanic cult."  Thanks, Tommy Tuberville, you took that for the team.  The American Egg Board reminded the outraged that the policy dates from 1978, the administration of born-again Baptist Jimmy Carter.  Go punt yourself, coach.

Many Americans are spending part of the day in airports, having chosen to fly for spring break or Easter festivities, or just to spend twenty minutes squinting at a solar eclipse, which suggests the US economy is doing well.  Strangely, the steady refrain of the TV news is about the high price of gasoline and chocolate.  Gas fluctuates for all kinds of reasons, and in a couple of days chocolate bunnies will be half-price.  It's almost as if they don't like to give good news.  

Of course it wouldn't be an American holiday without a mass shooting.  In Indianapolis, seven children between 12 and 17 were shot last night at a mall.  All are in stable condition, an Easter miracle if you like.  

Despite the holiday, demolition crews got to work on the ruins of the Key Bridge today, as Mayor Brandon Scott continues to be trashed for not putting on a suit and tie when awakened in the middle of the night; for having a beard; for -- let's be honest, for being Black.  If he had jumped into the river to save a construction worker they'd want to know why he didn't save the rest.  

 

US Highway 59 was closed for a while this afternoon because a barge hit a bridge over the Arkansas River.  No injuries, no structural damage.  Probably because Oklahoma has a white governor.

Rep. Tim Walberg (MI-MAGA) used to be a pastor, so some people were startled when he was overheard calling for the US to end the war in Gaza by treating it the way "Nagasaki and Hiroshima" were dealt with in 1945.  By way of explanation, Walberg said he was merely calling for a "get it over quick" solution.  To save money.  Fiscal conservative.  No genocide, no genocide, you're the genocide!  

Liron and Naomi Petrushka, tech entrepreneurs from Israel, died last night while attempting to land their private plane at Truckee Tahoe Airport in California.  Conspiracy theories at eleven.

"Police are the greatest people we have," Trump declared at Officer Jonathan Diller's wake and campaign stop on Long Island.  There was no comment from the more than 110 police beaten and gassed by his followers on January 6, nor from Brian Sicknick's widow.  In lieu of wildly inappropriate Easter greetings he then re-tweeted a picture of Joe Biden tied up in the back of a pickup.  After all, why should Biden expect better treatment than a judge's daughter or a district attorney?  How many Bibles does he own?