The Boston Marathon one year ago today became the latest target of terrorism. It is one of the saddest tragedies of our times that people gathered in public places at public events have become common targets of deadly violence. How utterly despicable it is to randomly and indiscriminately maim and kill people — babies, grandmothers, children – anyone who just …
Church Chat
This session of the Church of the Infinite Chasm is hereby called to order. As an addendum to last week’s diatri… I mean sermon, a few additional thoughts. To refresh your memory, or inform the FTAs (Failure To Attends), I rhetorically wondered why people can readily accept a “bad guy” in books, movies, TV shows, et cetera (whether fiction or …
Hump Day Hiatus #37
This is a day in many places of solemn ceremony and remembrance of the thousands upon thousands of lives lost to terrorism, and untold thousands more that will carry the scars of September 11 forever. It is sometimes all too easy to focus on the negative; there is so much of it. Today’s Hump Day Hiatus is a dazzling reminder …
The cancer is back
In the broad spectrum of crime, there can be no denying terrorism is in a category all by itself. It is the worst. If Bernie Madoff and Mohammad Atta were overbooked for the same firing squad, I think 99% of all those polled would pardon Madoff and perhaps even volunteer for trigger pulling duty against Atta. In Boston, for example, …