““Screw COVID. I went to Sturgis,” read one t-shirt from the rally, where overwhelming support for President Trump was the norm. ” https://www.motherjones.com/…/sturgis-motorcycle-rally-is-n… How pathetically stupid, and alarmingly evil. What **I** want is king. How dare you threaten to take that away!

So spot on as to the problem with “identity theology” , which doesn’t bother with the right question. It focuses instead on “correctness” as something one “owns” and others don’t. It’s failure to ask about how our neighbor is affected , and neglected, is what makes it a doorway to hate, which is born out of ignorance of the neighbor’s Continue Reading

Granddaughter Gabriella, born August 21, 2020, 7:40 pm CDT in Murfreesboro, TN, video taken Aug.23 approx 3:30 pm CDT youtu.be/HRGI4rt3qJ4

My son Brian and his little Gabriella, born 7:40 pm CDT, Murfreesboro, TN:(shared just minutes ago by Gabrielle’s mom, Brandy)

Question: Can institutions of *higher learning*, ya know, LEARN? University of Alabama reports more than 500 confirmed COVID-19 cases https://www.al.com/news/2020/08/university-of-alabama-reports-more-than-500-confirmed-covid-19-cases.html

My college days and Facebook friend Toby Roberts made a comment that sent me into a reply that I want to share as a post: Toby: Does the virus not like weddings? Actually, it LOVES weddings. Me: And they are happening, weekend after weekend, all summer, right across the street from me and unavoidably reminding me of the utter senselessness of clinging Continue Reading

I posted yesterday about another wedding about to happen. Well, it did, and it was just like the others: 40-50 people, exhibiting ZERO caution about distancing, or masks, laughing and screaming, singing, indoors for hours, and topping it off with a bride-groom procession between lines of people on both sides, maskless, shoulder to shoulder, out the front door and into Continue Reading

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/7/21/forced_school_reopenings_amid_pandemic

This is perhaps the scariest aspect of this whole pandemic for me, as I have family members involved in education, and am a lifelong devotee to quality and meaning and means of education. This push to “re-open” education is a carbon copy of the prior craze to “re-open America” and “get back to normal”. We are seeing dire consequences of Continue Reading

“We can’t fix the economic damage of the pandemic, without fixing the pandemic” — Rachel Maddow on tonight’s newscast

“Shut it down, start over, do it right.” A letter to our leaders from 150 health experts. https://uspirg.org/resources/usp/shut-it-down-start-over-do-it-right