FACEBOOK AND POLITICS

WARNING! TOXIC ENVIRONMENT!

Proceed with extreme caution

Can cause Delusion Irritation Inflammation Nausea Paranoia Hallucination Fever Agitation Depression

 

Highly Contagious, monitor your temperature

Relapse is likely

The only antidotes are

Empathy, Kindness, Humility, and Good Will

 

An American Solution to the "Gun Problem"

Following the recent gun-angst on FB, I have brainstormed a perfect win-win all-American solution: Insurance! Everyone has a right to drive (unless they are under-age, incompetent, etc), but car owners are required to carry liability insurance… and the same will be true of gun owners.

 Now, the way insurance works is to average the loss from various causes, and actuaries could easily do the same with respect to shootings of all sort. Of course this will not eliminate all shootings, but at least various social costs can be estimated and paid for: the cost of wrongful death and injury, psychological trauma, the cost of making schools safer, etc.

A pretty good solution, because it is SO American: not only will the Snowflakes be happy, but huge insurance companies and capital funds will LOVE it… no doubt bill’s greatest lobbyists!

On Patriots

A Norman Rockwell painting based on
Franklin D Roosevelt's 1941
Four Freedoms speech

Are you a Patriot? What is a patriot, truly? My 1988 Webster’s Dictionary defines a patriot as one who loves and loyally or zealously supports one’s country.


Now think about it: What indeed is your country, if not its aggregate people? Then if you despise, or hate, or scorn, or otherwise attack a significant number of your countrymen and their values, how can you possibly imagine yourself to be a patriot?

Genuine patriotism is more than an anthem sung at a ball game, or a love of justice, or a love of freedom, or even a willingness to fight wars. True patriotism also requires tolerance, understanding and good will, even when you strongly disagree.

 

Remember Lincoln: “With malice toward none and charity for all.” Otherwise we are destined to be a weak and unpatriotic nation regardless of our military might.

I just hope it isn’t too late.