Day: July 23, 2009

Surrounded by lunacy or something worse?

As we grow in age and wisdom, we begin to perceive that we are taxed and regulated by maniacs. Each group of them begins slowly, paying some passing obeisance to common sense. Then, as they become entrenched and divert steady streams of cash flowing into their agencies and departments, their inner desires emerge and they […]

Political systems

Political systems are a mess from one end of the world to the other. One may conclude, from their utter awfulness, that they’re supposed to be a mess, simply to separate sheep from goats. Today’s Reading, from Matthew 13; 10-17, includes the following: “You shall indeed hear but not understand, you shall indeed look but […]