Tag: Current Events

A Thought On Trendy Morality

TrendsA week ago Friday, I wrenched my neck rolling over in bed.

I know, its pathetic, but I’m told these things happen as one gets older.

So, Saturday morning I wake up at 4:00 a.m. with the worst pain I’ve ever felt in my life. My shoulder and neck are going into spasm one after the other, and I’m thinking I’m going to die.

After I sat up for a while and took some medication, I was able to avoid the spasms but only if I sat straight up on the couch with a pillow around my neck. I couldn’t even t lay down to sleep.

As a result, I sat on the couch doing nothing but watching television for two days straight. I couldn’t even look down to read because of the pain. Continue reading “A Thought On Trendy Morality”

Something to Remember on Memorial Day

Memorial-DayIt’s Memorial Day in the United States of America.

Memorial Day was originally instituted to commemorate the sacrifices of those who lost their lives in the American Civil War.

Since then it has become a day to remember and celebrate the sacrifices of American military service members in all military conflicts.

At its best, Memorial Day is a day to venerate sacrifice and courage for a higher righteous cause; at its worst it can become a day to celebrate American military strength, or to state it more bluntly: a day to celebrate militarism.

Paul Kennedy, in his book, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, argued that there was a cycle to the rise and fall of great powers. Initially they became great because of their economic strength which enabled them to amass great military strength. They then began to depend heavily on their military strength, which became economically unsustainable and they began to decline. Continue reading “Something to Remember on Memorial Day”

What Sergio Garcia Can Learn From Jesus

sergio garciaWatching the recent feud between Sergio Garcia and Tiger Woods is like watching a car wreck: I don’t want to see it but neither can I look away.

Perhaps it was best I not look away because now I’ve seen Garcia do something I didn’t think anyone could do—make Tiger Woods a victim.

This last week, when asked about their continuing war of words following The Players Championship and whether he would have Woods over for dinner during the U.S. Open, Garcia reportedly said, “We’ll have him ’round every night. We will serve fried chicken.”

Garcia, finally realized he’d gone too far and held a press conference to apologize for his remark.

In the weeks preceding his racist blast, Garcia had said a number of negative things about Woods, and when questioned about those remarks and his reaction to the incident that started it all at The Players Championship Garcia justified his remarks by saying he is a “truthful” person and says what he feels. Continue reading “What Sergio Garcia Can Learn From Jesus”

Why The Media Didn’t Report On Abortionist Trial

GosnellIf you haven’t heard, earlier this week a jury convicted abortionist Kermit Gosnell for murdering babies born alive after he failed to kill them in the womb.

I will spare you the horrifying details, but you can read them here if you are curious.

What was almost as shocking as Gosnell murdering babies born alive was major media’s blackout on reporting the trial.

It wasn’t until Fox and other media on the right began calling out the rest of the media that they reluctantly showed up and began reporting.

The cry from the right was that the major media silence on the Gosnell trial was driven by political bias. In other words, even though the media thought what happened was terrible, they didn’t report it because they thought it would mar the public image of abortion and give ammunition to pro-life groups. t think it was something more fundamental and more disturbing.

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On The Cleveland Sex-Slave Case

ObjectifiedLike most of America, I was shocked to see the news about the three girls who had been kept as sex slaves for ten years in a perv’s basement in Cleveland.

I was not, however, surprised.

What happened in Cleveland was a logical progression from the standard narrative our culture feeds us about women: that they are sex objects to be lusted after, used to sell products, or possessed.

Should we be surprised then when we hear that a man has locked up three women in his basement for ten years to do with what he pleased?

The objectification of women is not a new phenomenon; it has been around since the Fall of Man. But the advent of television, movies, marketing, and a willing media has ramped up the intensity of the brainwashing that women are merely objects, products and not persons.  Continue reading “On The Cleveland Sex-Slave Case”