Prayers, etc, for

Chuck Currie has been one of the most persistent and faithful organizers of the blogging, Christian, left.  His fortitude has been remarkable.  Keep him in your prayers as he undergoes surgery for a tumor.  Lord, be with the doctors, nurses and his families, and work in his body to bring him healing.

A few things I wanted to mention.  First, I did support the Transit strike in NYC, although I probably would have done things a bit differently.  I think that the MTA leaders were arrogant and disrespectful, generally, and this contributed to the strike.  Workers do not want to go on strike.  But in a city where class divisions run deeper than anywhere else in the country, courtesy and respect of workers goes a long way.  From an institutional psychology perspective, it was fascinating to note the way people handled their authority and postured to get the best position. 

The news about the survelliance indicates a couple things.  It again indicates Bush's incompetence.  There is already a sufficient structure to monitor terrorists.  The executive branch has plenty of authority - I believe that judges have rejected the executive requests less than six times since the institutions to fast track such requests were put in place.  This is merley an example of Bush thinking that he can do whatever he wants, fuckall.  He is the PRESIDENT.  If he were a bit smarter, and a bit more collaborative, he coud do everything he wants, much more easily. 

It also indicates how obsequious the media truly is.  How long did it take the NYT to report this case?  Liberal media, my ass.  Soon, it will disappear. 

Well, church is rolling along.   My darts teammate got angry at me for saying that Rudolf didn't exist.  "How dare you!" He said.  "You obviously don't have any children."  I said, "look, flying reindeer I can handle.  Reindeer with a flashing clown nose, that's a problem. 

"Besides, My grandma got run over by one." 

"You shouldn't say such things in public," he said.  I was, it seemed, destroying his faith. 

I was feeling Randy.  I said, "and the Easter Bunny was crucified for our sins."

I think he wanted to kill me.   do I feel bad?  Not really.  The week before he was telling me about his best friend's wife, who he had seduced.  Gleefully. 

Comments

[Simeon]

So was the seduction gleeful ? or was the telling of it ? ;->

(Sorry, been a bad few days and I'm feeling more perverse than usual...)