A friend of mine said something brilliant the other day. We were talking about politics and the political divide between the Republicans and Democrats. He commented how both sides were starting to vote 100% against whatever the other side wanted simply because they’re on the other side and how ridiculous it is for either side to claim that the other side is wrong 100% of the time, and how it’s evidence that our system is broken. I don’t meet too many people who think that one side or the other one is right or wrong 100% of the time, so if this is a government of, by and for the people, then who the hell are those morons running the show?
I heard two more banks went under last week in the Los Angeles area, I thought I was hearing the word “recovery”. Are fiscal dominoes still falling?
Does anyone care about sports any longer? I mean it has become such an arrogant class of people owning it, promoting it and participating; I for one and really turned off. My disillusionment started with the baseball strike, then it was fed with the hockey strike, then it was stoked with the Kobe thing and the Ray Lewis thing, and the blah-blah-blah blah thing, one after the other, it’s almost as bad as politicians. Hell even some sportscasters have fallen from grace. Then there’s Tiger, the most amazing golfer since I’ve been watching golf. It’s disappointing to find out that all the money and his low morals enabled him to ruin a golden image and blemish a sport that was almost immune to scandal, except for John Daly. Well, I’ve had it with sports, I may never jog again.
Someone said something really incisive about global warming and I don’t know who but the essence of it is that saying the planet is in peril isn’t accurate, it’s humans that are in peril. An interesting article online today about a glacier in Bolivia that a few years ago was huge and 15 meters thick and which fed water into lakes and kept a whole population of people nourished with fresh water. The guy in the online video skied what’s left of the glacier which appears now to be a small patch of snow about a 100 feet across in any direction and perhaps it’s a couple feet thick or maybe slightly more. It’s a stark reminder that all the argumentation about whether humans are the cause of things going to hell or not is kind of like fiddling while Rome burns. Didn’t Dick Cheney argue that the Democrats were diddling or dithering or something about the war? Well, butter up your pits Mr. Cheney ‘cause it’s starting to look like the world hasn’t experienced enough pain yet to make hard decisions about trying to deal with global warming either. If man is the cause, or even just a contributor, it sounds like we’re going to continue to contribute in spite of evidence that it’s getting late in the game.
On the up side, it’s Christmas and time to remember who Jesus is and why he died on the cross. Lights are up all over town and I’m done shopping (I think) and there’s nothing left to do but enjoy upcoming events. The only commandment Jesus ever gave us was to Love one as another as He loved us. Now wouldn’t that create change and hope in the world!?
Merry Christmas!