No Lobster Bisque for You, Professor Dershowitz!

I've been berated for being so dark, encouraged to post a happy tale.

Tragic news abounds, but there is indeed a comedic lining. Alan Dershowitz was shunned on Martha's Vineyard.  Move over, ghost of Mary Jo Kopechne; the esteemed professor might still be alive, but if he wants to stay on the island he's just going to have to eat fish sticks in a Red Roof Inn. Maybe, if he's lucky, someone will sneak him some leftover lobster salad.

Almost always, there are two sides to a story, more often three (with the first two being matters of plausible perspective and the third being closest to the truth).  I'm open-minded enough to acknowledge there are two sides to the story of America in 2018 as well. One is, let's see, how should I put this, RIGHT, and the other is, um, WRONG. SO WRONG.

There is no gray area here, on what we, collectively, are allowing to happen. Somehow, the darkest and most insidious rocks have been overturned and long dormant malevolence has been given the green light to crawl out and be heard. Somehow, a narcissistic thug has risen from the depths and it's not just the so-called deplorables who have lifted him up and carried him forward.

Come to think of it, the Dershowitz story is a happy tale. I am guessing the folks on Martha's Vineyard -- at least the summer folk -- enjoy their money and their tax breaks and their kelly green whale pants, and I would bet more than a few closet Republicans have cracked open some lobster claws with the liberal elites without anyone peeing in their terrines of melted butter. But it's encouraging to see that higher principles can trump (pardon the term) all else, and when anybody tries to rest on his laurels or supposed principles to use his own well positioned soap box to lend credulity to what is, in every sense of the word, an abomination, a line in the sand is drawn. No lobster bisque for you!

Professor Dershowitz, whatever your "principles" might be -- and I have a hunch they might even be noble if you weren't such a publicity hound -- you have become an enabler. There is little difference between you and the folks who rely on a twisted notion of religious freedom to  claim a constitutional right to shun homosexuals or, say, folks who believe in a woman's right to choose. Actually, there is a difference, and much danger. If a baker doesn't want to bake a cake for a gay couple, the gay couple can find another baker, and the local market will determine the fate of the local baker. If somebody's religious faith prohibits abortion, that person can choose to raise an unwanted baby or put her up for adoption. But when the people who have somehow grabbed the reins of our government and hijacked our democracy are doing everything they can to keep themselves in power while they chip away at everything we here have long taken for granted, people like you need to tread carefully when you wield your influence.

Professor Dershowitz, it's funny that, this holiday weekend, you didn't have melted butter on your hands. What's not funny is the blood that could replace it.