Kevin McCarthy agrees to legally change first name to “Sen. Joseph”
It may not be enough.
9th vote about to start.
There is a passage in the Buddhist Sutra on Mindfulness called the Nine Cemetery Contemplations. Apprentice monks are instructed to meditate on a series of decomposing bodies in the charnel ground, starting with a body “swollen and blue and festering,” progressing to one “being eaten by…different kinds of worms,” and moving on to a skeleton, “without flesh and blood, held together by the tendons.” The monks were told to keep meditating until they were calm and a smile appeared on their faces.
Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers