DANGEROUS TIMES INDEED

i had a thought today. It’s an idea i actually think might intrigue some people. Others i’m certain it will piss off, but good ideas often do that.
Our society is on a pernicious march toward slavery. i suggest we consider a measure that would suspend the right to vote [...]

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AND JUSTICE FOR ALL

i’ve been thinking about “social justice”. The only conclusion i’ve been able to draw about its meaning is that it’s an esoteric thing (personal perspective/experience).
So…
i’d appreciate it if you’d take some time and deposit your “social justice” wish list. If you don’t have time for a humungous, unabridged user’s [...]

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WRESTLING

i apologize to those who like ‘quick hit’ blogs. For your sake i’m going to distill DIFFICULTIES RESOLVED to its essence:
“Only God reserves the right to NOT forgive. Of us, it’s required.”

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DIFFICULTIES UNDONE

We’ve all got busy lives.   At least we’ve convinced ourselves this is so because we’re too busy to get to the things we’d like to do.   Sometimes our ‘business’ doesn’t only interfere with doing, but with being. 
 
Becoming the person we ought to be instead of pretending to be the person we want to be [...]

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DIFFICULTIES

Ever try to pinpoint the moment something changed?
 
I’m a casual believer in seminal moments; pivot-points in a person’s life when perspective or attitude suddenly took a dramatic shift.   Sometimes it might not be a shift at all, but a status quo stagnation characterized by arrested development.  
 
I had a conversation the other day with a [...]

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PUBLIC ENEMY #1

A friend asked me today why everybody’s so pissed at Rush Limbaugh.     His greater question was “why are the Democrats and the press attacking him?   What did he do?”
Well, it’s important to first recognize that the Democrats and the press are the same thing – or as is classically referred to as a ‘distinction without [...]

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DENOMINATIONAL DISCOURSE

The new morality is here.
 
President Obama and his team are busy trying to sell the new Theocracy to the American public and the world.   The god of ‘fairness and equity’ is the new sovereign and President Obama is its priest and prophet.  
 
Underling Geitner was on the Hill yesterday on an apostolic mission of dispensing [...]

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