Guys,

I'm thinking there's little point in maintaining a blog. What I have to write, I generally put on FB, now. It's not like I update here, anyway. I'm keeping it, simply because FB does silly things - quite often - and, one day, there'll be a straw too far for this camel.

Who's that trip-trapping . . . ?

Brad must've gotten off his meds again. Someone open a window. LOL!

UPDATE ON KATZIE

It was, indeed, a UTI. Other than some grogginess from sedation and a bit of grumpiness, my boy is fine, Katrina is grateful to have someone there with her when I'm away at work. Katzie is, of course, demanding cuddling and stroking in return for his heroic pains, and getting it. Special thanks to Mimi, and to all who gave thoughts and prayers.

Please Pray

Katzie is back at the vet's with urinary problems. We're hoping it's just a UTI. Very stressful.

I've been getting grief from some liberal friends. I don't talk about loving the enemy into change, I don't make nice and give platitudes about the gradualness of change. No. I don't.




Simply put, I believe we are at a crisis. Either we get rid of the far right and their antediluvian ignorance, or we all perish. Simply put. For this, I'm derided (oh, so gently and left-handedly) as hysterical and a crackpot. With friends like this . . .



Yet, here is what they don't understand - no, I'm not a good person. Unless God is far more compassionate than even I believe, I will go to Hell. I do so proudly, because here's what I know and my gentle friends don't - good guys don't win. They survive, but accomplish nothing. Mostly, they don't even survive. That's why you need me. I love you and hope for the world you do - a world which will NOT include me.



You are right, evil will defeat evil - and that evil has to be directed. I will happily be destroyed and go to Hell to bring about that destruction, to fire on them with their own guns. You guys can't. You can be innocent as doves, but you haven't mastered the subtlety of serpents. Still less can you be the ravening and roaring lion required to defend God's Creation from Tea Partiers and the New Republican Reich.

It Is Accomplished

I've finally read The Silmarillion.

This is the main message I've carried away -

Elves are assholes.

Why Bother With the AC?

Seriously . . . I mean, reading the Marriage Report garbage, Justin "I'm-Ever-So-Nice-Really" Welby's prevaricating, the violence of Uganda, Nigeria, the misogyny all around the million-dollar question is

Why do we in TEC want people to think we're associated with such backwards creatures?!

Enough, Already.

I am publicly declaring that, as of today, I will no longer be held hostage to the spurious "Godwin's Law."

The simple fact is that the Republican Party is now the Tea Party, a radical, nutjob group.  They are, to all intents and purposes, a mirror image of the ways and means of the National Socialist, aka Nazi, Party. 

It is a group of thuggish, gangsterish rich men using a group of insane pedagogues to stir up the worst impulses of a scared, ignorant, poor people.  It uses racism, class consciousness, and nationalism to promote itself.  It tells big lies, so that people will believe it - it must be true, because no one would lie that big in public if they might get caught.  They prey on the un-confronted fears and prejudices of a nation that has fallen from grace into poverty and uncertainty - without a strong economy, uncertain security in the face of terrorism, we can't afford the luxury of pretending that racial hatreds, homophobia, denigration of women, religious prejudice and the ignorance it engenders have been conquered.  They're.  Right.  There. 

The Tea Party is the Nazi Party for the 21st Century, and, as long as it exists, as long as it has a public forum, as long as its financial backers are given a free pass, this nation cannot recover.

Some Good News at Last!

Doomsday Clock at 5 til!

Happy New Year!

It certainly was for me.

James came down and gave me a new stove as a Christmas present. 

I certainly don't deserve such kindness - it can only be Grace.