My Incipient Panic Attack

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I’m trying everything I know to get this blog back to where it was during the first half of this topsy-turvy year–you wouldn’t believe how hard I’m trying–but now I have to stop and write a Newswithviews column, and earlier I had to stop writing my book because it began to rain on me. Anyone who thinks this is easy, well, step right up and try it for yourself.

Excuse me–just had to lug a couple of these 5-gallon jugs, bad knee and all, upstairs to the water cooler. Somehow managed it.

I do these things because I have to, it’s my job, and I hope it will be fruitful in God’s service. So let me get started with this column–whatever it turns out to be.

‘Everything Is Bad for You’

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They could drive you crazy.

“Everything is bad for you,” said my sister–a health care professional, by the way–“so I’m just giving up and having pizza.”

What do you get when you mix science with politics? You get politics.

What do you get when you mix science with “journalism”? You get pure, unadulterated, scare-mongering “journalism.”

There used to be a feature on the evening nooze around here. a Dr. So-and-so, who came on every night to urge his viewers to get tested for just about everything. If you were ever mad enough to take him seriously, you’d be doing nothing but running to the doctor for one test after another.

Life is incredibly complex, nature is vaster than anyone can truly grasp, and listening to the Experts, who told us that “millions” of us were gonna die from COVID-19, led to truly crazy public policies–shutting down the economy, placing healthy people under quarantine, forbidding church services, weddings, and funerals–but not riots!–and thrusting us all into this weird drama that’s gone on for six months so far and is still in force wherever the ruling politicians want it to be.

Sometimes you can’t even do what the experts advise because their advice splits off into several contradictory directions all at once. Eat this! Never eat this! Beware the Obesity Epidemic–but “fat” is something to be proud of! Conform your meals to the government’s Food Pyramid, and you wind up looking like a pyramid!

I think we can all agree that doing anything to excess will turn out badly. But that’s too simple–not enough scope for Experts to spread their wings and fly. They want to be our gods. Turn from the real God and worship Experts. And if their advice lands you in the morgue before your time–well, what else would you expect?

Toldja! Face Masks Forever

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Mayor De Blasio Announces Open Restaurants Will Return Next Summer

Where’s your mask, genius?

Remember when we were all gonna be locked down–for our own good, of course, as determined by The Wise–for just long enough for them to “flatten the curve” of the Chinese Communist Death & Doomsday Virus? It was only going to be for a few weeks.

But that was six months ago, going on seven, and large chunks of America are still held in varying degrees of lockdown.

People are fleeing New York in droves, and maybe they’ll come back someday and maybe they won’t. And here’s what Mayor Bill de Blasio has to say about it:

“[W]e’re not done until we hit zero” cases (https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/bryan-preston/2020/09/28/de-blasio-tweets-he-will-keep-new-york-under-covid-unism-forever-n983412).

Dude! That will never happen! There will never be zero cases! Because the damned thing is out now, it’s part of our environment, and we’re flaming well stuck with it.

We toldja, though, didn’t we? Toldja Democrat politicians want some degree of lockdown, face masks, and social distancing forever. Maybe a steady stream of riots, too–icing on the cake.

Keep this up, boys, and you’ll turn New York City into a ghost town. What a proud achievement for you! A perpetual testimony to the utter lunacy of allowing “progressives” to govern human beings.

It’s Debate Night!

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Hey! I thought I asked for a picture of Joe Biden–not Dracula. What’s that? You find it hard to tell them apart? Hmmm….

Tonight’s the first presidential debate of 2020. Gibberin’ Joe Biden has been lured out of his basement–don’t ask how–and refused to take a drug test before the fun starts, which can only mean he’s chemically equipping himself for it.

We are warned by some conservative commentators that the bar has been set too low: that all Biden has to do, to “win” the debate, is not do a Nadler in his pants. After 50 years of taking up space on Capitol Hill, if there’s one thing Joe can do in his sleep–and he might really be asleep–it’s debate politics. What’s he done for 50 years but talk?

I pray that this will be the end of it–the Biden campaign in particular and the Democrat Party in general. Forever. We do not need the Riot Party doing to our whole country what they’ve done to the unhappy cities they control.

May the Lord confound them.

Kowabunga! ‘Fat Studies’!

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Who knew you could get a Ph.D. in this?

Here’s proof that no one can keep track of the vast cyclones of idiocy sweeping through our (ahem!) “higher education” system.

Did you know you can get a Ph.D. in Fat Studies? I didn’t know that. Why, it “builds on the tradition of gender studies and queer studies” (https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-fat-studies-63108). What could be more edifying? More illuminating?

Yessir, for just a couple hundred thousand dollars, you can become an accredited expert on Being Fat and What It Feels Like To Be Fat and How Mean Thin People Are.

How much more proof do you need that America has ten times more college/university than is good for us, and desperately needs to defund the whole shebang?

As for why anyone would ever shell out bucks for this–well, we really have done a job on our culture, haven’t we?

Go figure: they want you to “celebrate” and be “Proud” of fatness–and at the same time, the same people want to forbid you to have a large soda or a piece of cake.

Well, no one ever said liberals are sane.

“‘National Health’ to Push “Stop Drinking” Pill’ (2014)

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One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small…  (Jefferson Airplane)

As C.S. Lewis once said, the robber baron robs you and then moves on; but the know-it-all meddler will never get enough of interfering with your life.

‘National Health’ to Push ‘Stop Drinking’ Pill

Britain’s National Health Service, always on the lookout for another choice to snatch away from people, came up with a pill that supposedly would make you stop drinking alcoholic beverages. I mean, really, c’mon–who wants all that free will jazz? When the government knows what’s best for you! Why should they just stand by and do nothing when you make wrong lifestyle choices?

And then, after poking and pushing and telling you what you can do and can’t do all your life, next thing you know, they’re bundling you into “end of life counseling” and trying to talk you into letting them kill you… They don’t want you hanging around as a “useless eater.”

What is wrong with us, that we would ever consent to stuff like this?

(P.S.–Would you  believe it? I left out the original post!)

By Request, ‘Were You There?’

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I think this might be the first hymn our friend SlimJim has requested, and I hope he likes the Johnny Cash rendition of Were You There?

Some of you yesterday helped re-load the Your Favorite Hymns wagon, we we have another two weeks’ worth. Come one, come all! The devil hates it when we get together to praise the Lord.

Kitten’s First Ice Cube

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I’m a believer in giving your cats stimulating things to play with, as long as it doesn’t make a mess or break something. An ice cube fills the bill. Of course, as anyone who has cats can tell you, they’ll keep batting their new toy around the floor until they bat it under a cabinet or the sofa and can’t get at it anymore. And note that mommy-cat is not as blase about that ice cube as she would have you believe.

Dementia Cases Expected to… Triple?

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Here’s a really alarming story that we missed somehow when it came out in 2017.

According to a press release by the World Health Organization (https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/07-12-2017-dementia-number-of-people-affected-to-triple-in-next-30-years), cases of dementia, worldwide, can be expected to triple in the next 30 years, from 50 million to over 150 million.

In 2017 the cost of dementia in the United States was $818 billion–and it may be expected to climb to $2 trillion in the foreseeable future.

There are several kinds of dementia, but the most common–and the worst–is Alzheimer’s Disease.

We cannot handle this without God’s help. We aren’t exactly coping with it now. A crisis like this calls for strong families, strong churches, and strong communities. Simply making the government bigger, and funding bigger and costlier bureaucracies, will not accomplish anything.

Hollowing out our culture will leave us defenseless.

Minneapolis: ‘Defund Police’ Isn’t Working

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Not such a good idea, after all

Who here is surprised when a city’s crime rate shoots into the stratosphere after the municipal government pledges to “defund police”?

The Minneapolis City Council, with a great deal of fanfare, did this three months ago–and now they seem to be trying to say they didn’t really mean it (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3888541/posts). So now they’re waffling about “interpretation” and “the spirit” of their assertions, they weren’t really claiming that a brigade of social workers can actually replace the police.

But crime is up, way up, in many Democrat-controlled cities, especially wherever the government has openly turned against its own police force–and we’re not even counting the riots. What are the rioters going to do if those city councils change their minds?

When it comes to advocating outright insanity as public policy–look before you leap.