“We, the people” is the phrase that comes trippingly to mind. We, the people, over Memorial Day weekend, initiated an urgent referendum on the means and methods of battling the novel coronavirus. Early returns pour in even as we speak….
So. A Texas day care center can open now. I said “right now.” Come Friday, May 22, Texas bars and bowling alleys, by gubernatorial writ, are allowed to pry their doors partly — and, yes, cautiously — open. On the…
Rules, rules, rules — and don’t we hate ’em? They restrict some of our most personal notions, retard our experiential growth, run contrary to modern suppositions as to our human rights. Modern culture reflects and magnifies the I’ll-do-what-I-want spirit that…
Brothers and sisters, we are living in Prophets’ Heaven! I never before knew there was such a place, but there is. We should enjoy it while we can. In Prophets’ Heaven, a gentleman or a lady can prophesy anything and…
“So the city was filled with the confusion … Now some cried one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together.” — The Acts of the Apostles,…
Wouldn’t it be fun if people weren’t actually dying or losing their livelihoods due to a virus no one had heard of until a few months ago? We could prop our feet on the porch railing and howl at or…
You can tell we’re getting restless — twitching and twisting and otherwise maneuvering ourselves into the familiar postures that characterized life, say, last January. We’re homesick: sick of being at home and making allowances for spouses, children, boarders, TV personalities….
Politics being politics, and politicians being politicians, Americans have figured out how, along with sore throats and violent coughing, the coronavirus causes finger-pointing, loud talking, and endless credit-claiming. The best remedy I know of: huge handfuls of salt for sprinkling…
We seem to be in what Bernie’s and Joe’s and my generation called a “mell of a hess,” back before the media and the political class routinized the words that were formerly common to override with “#%$#%^!!%$%.” Which made for…