It’s up to 28 degrees. When my iPhone informs me it is above freezing – the forecast is 11 a.m. – I’ll stop the faucet dripping. I’ll be grateful for the water bill because it got as low as 9, I think, and the pipes held out.That’s the good news. The bad news is having …
Tag: religion
Selfish by Nature
I shouldn’t eat as much fried food. I’m probably drinking too much coffee (right at this moment, even). I should get more exercise. I should curb my vices, and, quite possibly, my enthusiasm. It’s stressful, you know. I don’t care, and to one extent or another, that’s true of most everyone. We pick our poisons, …
Jesus Say What?
A fellow wrote that there were plenty of places in the New Testament where Jesus said homosexuality was an abomination, and that all these people who were going to write about the Bible needed to read it. Which is sort of the way I feel about the Constitution, but that’s another story. I wrote him …
Shoot for the Moon? Hah!
I just stumbled across a troubling fact: It’s been 41 years since a man walked on the moon. Forty-one years! What was the fucking use? This seems emblematic of the failed promises of youth. It’s gone from “where no man has gone before” to “well, we went there once,” like it was a trip to …
Nightrider's Lament 