Thursday, September 7, 2017

There Just Ain't That Much in the News, Mates, but I Have This

Don't read that as dismissive of Hurricane Irma since it's fuckin' horrible and maybe millions will suffer from it ... but you don't need me to amplify something you know already.

Most of the Millennials weren't alive yet when Hurricane Andrew whacked Florida but I remember and I'm sure many of you remember that storm as well.  The Rockhouse doesn't have the means to send food and blankets or any of the things people need when they're really screwed but Trump seems to be giving it his whole attention and the Rockhouse has no criticism of that.


Although the Rockhouse is strongly supportive of the need to address climate change, this isn't the time for armchair pundit scientists to be pontificating to the tune of, "I told you so."

Actually armchair pundit scientists have no basis for saying I told you so since scientists told us long before they.  Pundits also feel superior regarding the Flat Earth Society even when it seems it's not so long ago since pundits grasped the fact for themselves.  "Ships really don't fall off the edge of the world!  Who knew?  News at Eleven."


There's the obligatory tale of a despicable cop and there's one in Florida with a knack for hustling selfies who said he will use Florida shelters as arrest opportunities.  The Rockhouse has emphasized previously only about ten percent of cops qualify as truly despicable.  That the other cops don't force them out in shame for the betterment of their Guild is deeply regrettable but we rarely see any emphasis from newsreaders which go any deeper since we see the endless parade of despicable cops doing doing despicable things but that's it.

We will sometimes see defensive articles about cops saving kittens from trees or whatever but those are as useless as the despicable cop reports since the defensiveness has no value when the report still doesn't go to any depth.

We're better than that, mates, and it's deeply regrettable pundits are not.


Robert E. Lee is the fourth great-nephew of the general and he stands for everything the General did not so he is being vilified by his congregation for protesting racism on an awards show on television. He has been forced by their reaction to resign as their pastor.  However, I'm not protesting the horror but rather looking for great things from him since it's unwise to dismiss all pastors as nitwits and there's no need now to point at the ones who clearly are nitwits.

Lee is a university-trained student of Divinity and he didn't attend some puffball school since he took his degree at Duke.  That tells the Rockhouse the cat is smart and obviously we like his sensibilities and his courage.  The smart cat knows when he's likely to be flogged and the brave one does it anyway.  He did.


Here's a tiny little church well away from anywhere and maybe the pastor looks like a failure when he doesn't have a huge congregation making him a rich man.  I'm guessing we don't need a review of rich in money versus rich in spirit and I'm absolutely positive you can clarify things if you don't really know by attending a service in this church.


Zen Yogi:  you sure profess Christianity for one who says he does not believe in it

That may look like a pose or a back-handed cop to get to Heaven but I recognize bad churches and it would be slanted to ignore the good ones.


CNN advertises in its articles multiple TV shows and pop stars and I'm sure we're all appreciative of it when the medium doesn't so much contain advertising articles but rather puts them up as articles as some kind of news.

These are hard and dark times, my brothers and sisters, but we mustn't let them drag us into their propagandistic pits of hell.

Zen Yogi:  we're better than that?

True, Yogi, and even some bears.

Zen Yogi:  moi?


There's more love in your heart than TV will ever know and that includes the plastic telly love in "The Bachelor" or the "The Bachelorette" since those exploit love but show no evidence of believing in it.

Zen Yogi:  but the people on them are hot, Silas!

Surely they are but do you want a Louise Lipton or a real woman who knows there are some shitty things needed to support love.

Zen Yogi:  oh, sure, that's positive

Think of the woman who wipes the shit off a child's ass to keep the little rotter healthy.

Zen Yogi:  their spouses will do that too!

Surely they will since if he's any kind of a man he will help, do it himself, or whatever is necessary.  Will you tell me any man anywhere would wipe the shit off a kid's ass without the deepest love driving him to do it.

Zen Yogi:  not me, Brer Silas


Zen Yogi:  so the people are the real news?

Always, Brer Yogi.


In that vein, we have some Pilgrim news since Texas is pulling back from the Summer fry an egg on the sidewalk heat.  Daytime temps are in the nineties and nighttime goes to the sixties.  The biggest complaint down here isn't heat but cold.

Zen Yogi:  that's about love as well?

Of course since what else will encourage people to travel at significant hardship halfway across the country.

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