Two great pieces about food stamps and farm subsidies

[richlevy]

During debate on the farm bill in the House Agriculture Committee last week, Mr. Fincher was one of the biggest proponents of $20 billion in cuts to food stamps in the legislation. At times he quoted passages from the Bible in defending the cuts.

Every time something like this comes up and someone quotes the bible, I keep on thinking to myself "Are we talking about the same bible"?

I know that there are many translations of the Bible. But while words can differ slightly, the overall context doesn't change. I keep wondering if there is some King Asshole version that I am not aware of.

I thought the same thing when I read about the trial judges opinion in the case leading to Loving v Virginia.

The Lovings were charged under Section 20-58 of the Virginia Code, which prohibited interracial couples from being married out of state and then returning to Virginia, and Section 20-59, which classified miscegenation as a felony, punishable by a prison sentence of between one and five years. The trial judge in the case, Leon M. Bazile, echoing Johann Friedrich Blumenbach's 18th-century interpretation of race:
“ Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.