Us Against Us

They'll never get her to go to rehab now.

Sorry.

I hope when I'm gone someone will give a shit enough to make an unfortunate remark. I also hope future generations, should they blunder upon my blog, find no significance in the first line of this post.

I certainly don't.

What was I talking about?

Oh, nothing.

More than one person I know reacted to the horrible events in Norway with the thought that if religion on either side breeds these sort of actions and in the case of the island shooter, reactions, then religion in and of itself is simply evil. These are the same folks who argued years ago that Judas Priest records can't make someone shoot themselves in the face. I don't know if humans (and this includes me) are getting dumber or if most of our reactions to big, horrible events like this, when a political position is taken to an extreme default to "them versus us."

Again I am not saying I am smarter than or possess more demonstrative proof of the fundamental facts of man than professed atheists I know...

...but I do know this, the longer I live the less the world and the unraveling of Western civilization (if that's what's happening) can be understood if one thinks of things in terms of "them against us." For free peoples the problem is, and maybe has always been "us against us."

SOX and Cleveland rained out today. No worries, they will win on Sunday. They are going to win just enough this year TO MAKE ME GO CRAZY WHEN THEY DROP OUT OF THE RACE SOMETIME IN SEPTEMBER!