of nicknames and cynics

"How can you say, ‘We are wise,
    for we have the law of the LORD,’
when actually the lying pen of the scribes
    has handled it falsely?" (Jeremiah 8.8; NIV)

​In a previous ‘I’m Just Saying…’ post, I mused on the fear, terror, horror, and alarm that is Caligula. I speculated on other possible infamous nicknames that he has well earned: Kishkumen, Gadianton, Amalichkiah.
 
While on the subject of nicknames… I often referred to Bill Clinton as ‘Sherem,’ especially after his deposition in the Monica Lewinski case when he, without any apparent sense of shame, wondered aloud what the definition of ‘is’ is. I associated him with Sherem because of the text’s description of the ancient sophist.
 
“He was learned… he had a perfect knowledge of the language of the people; wherefore, he could use much flattery, and much power of speech, according to the power of the devil” (Jacob 7.4).
 
The man was such an expert flatterer. And how ‘bout that philosophizing, huh?
 
I was reminded of our ol’ latter-day Sherem yesterday as I listened to the soon-to-be-most-junior supreme court judge, Kavanaugh—unfortunately, all the Dems can do is holler, for there is nothing they can do to stop this train wreck. This latest sophist wizard of words was questioned about a several-dozen-page-long paper that he wrote in which he challenged the assertion that ‘all legal experts consider Roe v. Wade to be ‘settled law.’ His defense reminded me of Clinton’s “it depends on what your definition of ‘is’ is” defense. The paper, he asserted, was not intended to argue that the Roe v. Wade decision was not settled law, but, only that not “all” legal experts agreed with that depiction of the law.
 
Is the man really so cynical, and so sure that we are all idiots, as to believe that anyone with half a mind wouldn’t see right through such a specious, dishonest version of reality? The absence of integrity and the obvious, in-your-face contempt with which he holds the institutions of our country is towering, unspeakably so. No wonder Caligula nominated him. He is a man after Caligula’s own heart.
 
For this dissertation on the nature of ‘all,” his mastery of the dark “arts and cunning of the people” (Alma 10.15), and his contempt of truth and the legal processes of judicial appointment, he has certainly earned a place in the honorary ‘hall of Sherem’ (or is it ‘hall of shame’”), and earned the title, “Zeezrom,” a “child of hell” by Amulek’s reckoning (Alma 11.23). Only time will tell if he can rise to the rank of “Korihor” in the hall of shame. Of him, we are told that he was, under Satan’s tutelage, expert in teaching that which was “pleasing unto the carnal mind” (Alma 30.53).
 
So, let the games begin.

"And now behold, I say unto you, that the foundation of the destruction of this people is beginning to be laid by the unrighteousness of your lawyers and your judges” (Alma 10.27).