Archive for March, 2008

I have been keeping myself on the outer edges of the presumed news reality the last weeks, feeling a bit on the brittle-crash-tinkle side of life as I am.  I pop up online for a short while every couple days to check email, follow the various courses of friends’ lives and peek at a few headlines.

It is some of those headlines that make me want to crawl back beneath my bedcovers.  So, randomness shall here ensue:

“Obama not Muslim” …this per Sen. Clinton, apparently, in a headline.  I didn’t read the story.  And yes, all the twatchen-Coulter mouthiness aside, I do know about right wing idiocy about Obama’s middle name.  I am ashamed, America, that a country once decrying linking religion with public office now has to publicly argue over what a man believes because of his middle name.  I am ashamed that we are apparently entering a new Dark Age of fanaticism and orthodoxy-or else.

“Vatican Rules Some Baptisms Invalid” – Now, that sounds like some silly little file room screw-up, doesn’t it?  But it isn’t.  The New Inquisition is rooting out feminism, which this 21st century pope has said is anti-Christian; so any baptism using “gender nuetral” terms instead of the very male “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit” is invalid.  My old Jesuit parish, which began prayer with “Our Father, Our Mother, Who art in heaven….” is doubtless in trouble.  I am more proud than ever that I was once a member there…..Dark Ages, people.  Insanity.

“US Launches Missile Attack in Somalia” – apparently Al Quaida members are lurking everywhere?  Soooo….now it will be even more “ok” to simply blast hell out of anywhere at all, long as we point our finger and say “Al Quaida says” first?  WTF??

“New Bomb Targets Iranian Super-Bunkers” – OK, I know Bush wants yet another war we cannot afford, but this one is apparently because Raytheon has been building bigger bombs on the report that Iran has been improving concrete strength.  Gee, can we say “Enrich the Military Industrial Complex and beggar the rest of us” folks?  I thought we could.

I’m going to go back to bed.  Wake me up when sanity has a running chance at prevailing….oh, and when America remembers what century this is SUPPOSED to be according to the calendar.