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These things do come and go, but it appears that Harry Reid-- the Left Hand of God--may have a lead over Sharron, the Angle of God, in Nevada.  That is hard to understand.  Harry--poor soul!--has all the charisma of the forgotten soul who sits on the Left Hand of God.  He ain't Jesus. The Angle of God, on the other hand, has been designated by God Himself to become the Senator for Sin City.  She has an endorsement!  Still, it looks like Harry has a little lead in the polls; maybe seven points.  I don't know how Dirty Harry can make himself go on: an awkward old boxer up against what God says he wants to happen! Still--and we need to remember this-- the Lesions of God do awkward things. Catholics, for instance, wanting to show the world that they condemn pedophilia, somehow managed to make the desire for women to become priests as criminal as buggery.  So maybe Awkward Harry, sitting distantly to the Left of God, knows something. Maybe God's Ang

Oh, good!  The Vatican has brought its "in-house" rules up to date. Those rules have to do with clerical sex abuse, child pornography, and that sort of thing.  The rules do little more than "housekeeping" with regard to those issues.  What the hell!  Let bygones be gone! There is one major change:  attempting to  ordain women to the priesthood is specified as a "grave crime", subject to the same prodedures and punishments meted out for sex abuse. I see no cause for worry.  Women might as well go for it! If the same procedures and punishments are meted out that  have been applied to sex offenders in the Church, the women will have long-since retired from their priestly duties before anyone gets around to punishing them for their grave crimes.   O.K.!  You tell me:   How is it possible for any woman to take the Catholic Church seriously?  Nuns may have shed their burkas (I know!  I know!  Habits! ) but they had damned well better not be g

Long before humor was invented, someone said he had gotten a haircut, and it made him blind.  It caused his hat to fall down over his eyes.  Mari and I are going to drive to the West Coast in our pickup. That has caused me to see if it has oil, and four tires.  Then the dashboard light dimmed nearly to nothing.  I could not read the dim LED lights on the odomoter. The local service center sent me to the Ford Dealer because the pickup has not quite used up its factory warranty. The Service Manager said to take it in to the shop and they would take the instrument panel apart to ascertain some numbers, and order a whole new lighting panel. The mechanic came to find me. "Come with me!" he said.  "Sit there!" He took an envelope away from a light sensor on the dashboard. The envelope had caused the sensor to assume it was nighttime, and that the lights should be dimmed for night driving, making the display almost completely illegibible during daytim

It is all over, friends!  It is all over! Gods is backing Sharron Angle for Senator from Nevada.  Ralph Reed interviewed her.  You remember Ralph.  Time magazine called him, the "right hand of God". The Right Hand of God asked The Angle how she could explain her rise to prominence. She said it was God's Plan. "I believe that God has been in this from the beginning and because of that when he has a plan and a purpose for your life and you fit into that, what he calls you to he always equipped you for," Angle replied. Just to keep the faithful from falling asleep-- because they know a whole lot, already, about God's Plan, she added:  "the tenet of the separation of church and state is an unconstitutional doctrine." It is all over! How can a normal, decent, God-fearing, snuff-chewing, Christian woman go into a polling booth knowing that she is going up against God's Plan From the Beginning, and cast her vote for Harry R

Sharon Angle, the Tea Bagger Republican running against Harry Reid, in Nevada, thinks that if a girl has been raped she should turn that lemon into a lemonade.   Sharon is insistent that abortion is a terrible crime, and should never be allowed, not even in cases of rape and incest. For instance, she was asked, what if a thirteen year-old girl were raped by her father, and found herself pregnant?  "Two wrongs don't make a right!" the righteous Ms. Angle replied.  Much good, she said, can come from a situation like that.  She did not  say the girl had probably asked for it. She did not.  I do not know how she restrained herself.  Take any ethical rule--not a vacant "be good" rule, but an actual rule that specifices what is good, or bad-- and make it absolute.  For instance:  that abortion is always wrong, and you will find yourself defending pure, awful horror.  If abortion is always wrong, you will insist raped daughters give birth to babies.

When I was a mere lad, in my early forties, the American League adopted the designated hitter rule. They weren't scoring enough runs, and they decided that pitchers were the worst hitters, so they platooned the pitchers. For more than a century, pitchers took their turns at bat. Babe Ruth had been a pitcher:  a whalloping good pitcher! I have been listening to Bert Blyleven and Dick Bremer, the Minnesota Twins broadcasters on Fox Sports North, lamenting the fact that when they play National League teams in National League parks, the pitchers have to hit.  It has something to do with getting their asses kicked. Their logic is that pitchers are fragile, and should not have to play offense.  I use that term deliberately because they are using a football argument.  Football players also used to play both offense and defense, but now it is rare to see a football player do both.  Neither Blyleven nor Bremer are arguing that baseball should double their numbers, and co