Welcome friends!
Tough couple of weeks, right? With all the mayhem going on in the world I hardly knew which way to turn, but after a feverish five minutes of careful consideration I decided it might be most appropriate to say a few words about the recent social unrest in Missouri. (For my foreign friends, we’re talking about one of those sparsely populated conservative states in the vast wilderness between the west and east coasts of the US in what people here somewhat facetiously call the heartland of the country, somewhere near Kansas or Nebraska I should imagine.) If you’ve been out of touch with the News from America for the past few days it’s another one of those cases where a cop has gunned down an unarmed young man and race may or may not have been a factor, which isn’t really all that unusual, but I think I’ve only talked about race relations once before so maybe this is another good opportunity. I was tempted to talk a bit about Richard Dawkins latest attempt to enlighten us via oracular “tweet,” this one involving a supposed moral mandate to abort fetuses with disabilities, but maybe I’ll save that one for another time. I just did a post on a funny Richard Dawkins tweet and it seems that could very easily become a full time job if I let it. I also thought briefly of saying something about the Arabs and Israelis murdering one another (and one another’s kids) in Gaza but really that’s just more of the same isn’t it? It’s a tragedy of course, but apparently they’re going to do what they’re going to do, the future be damned.
So let’s just have a quick recap of what we’re talking about this time out. Apparently we had a couple of what we used to call dead end kids walking down the middle of the road in some lost city out on the prairie somewhere, a cop drove by and told them to get to the side, one thing led to another, and the cop ended up shooting one of them six times including twice in the head... Sorry but only selected archived (previous year) posts are currently available full text on this website. All posts including this one are available in my annual anthology ebook series available at the Amazon Kindle Bookstore for a nominal fee. Hey, we all need to make a buck somehow, right? If you find my timeless jewels of wisdom amusing or perhaps even amusingly irritating throw me a bone now and then. Thank you my friends!
