The Left's Big Lie

Democrats and the political left are overdue for some self-scrutiny and reform rather than the usual handwringing. The white women's party now marches on in continuing confusion while the Right explodes into pure fascism and compels the country downwards. How hard can it be to direct unified, coherent criticism against an entity, the Republican Party, that has left a trail of destruction for forty years culminating in Trump?

The good news is that a core belief of the the Left, on the evils of racism, has been proven right. The bad news is that white women, as a political movement, are racists, getting it into their heads that they were above judgement and existentially correct--not because of the integrity, humanity and decency of their opinions and policy prescriptions but because they were women. Why? They thought they were better than men.

They have proven that they aren't, most recently by voting for a depraved ignoramus and unrepentant ape for president. Perhaps that is good news too, in a way, that women really are the equal of men, even in arrogance, myopia and fecklessness. But while we are working out our shit on this the world as we have known it is coming to and end. Sorry to scorn the massive American consumption bash and exceptionalist ego-fest.

It is time for a change.

What If God Was One of Us?

Actually, God was. "GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD..." We are the ones who despise it, thinking it ours to destroy, the presumption, arrogance, apostasy and betrayal of evangelicals and the greedy, conservative elite.

God is always among us. The "second coming" isn't a temporal event. The end-times are always happening because our lives are always running out in the inevitability of death, and HOW we choose to live is therefore urgent. 

Choose well, my friends. The killers of Christ are active among us, having a field day, as they say. Love your neighbors, and don't trust those that don't. It's a simple command and worth following. Choose love.

Everybody's Talkin' At Me

The barrage of voices is so great it's impossible to filter or take in. I need a break. Give me a break. I can't hear a word they're saying because there's just too much of it. It's making me numb. Maybe that's the point. But it's my fault for listening. I'm turning it off now...

A True Parallel

Indignation and disgust are the only reasonable, possible reactions to the latest revelations of Catholic, clerical sexual misconduct coming out of Pennsylvania. In scope and severity this abuse of power is stunning and damning, no less so than with Trump and his cabal of crooks and cronies in Washington, where their positions of trust and power give them the chance to enrich themselves and screw others in defiance of the stated, implicit and implied duties of their jobs, thereby destroying lives. They should be in jail. Waterboarding should be used to determine their guilt. They believe in its efficacy, after all...

It's Not the Truth that Republicans Fear...

It is Justice.