Lee Duigon

I used to be a newspaper reporter and editor. I still do some investigative reporting for the Chalcedon Foundation, where I am a contributing editor. So I know a thing or two about journalism, and I used to be rather proud of being a newspaperman. It seemed an honorable profession–speaking truth to power, informing the public, exposing corruption, and all that.

Not any more!

Several times yesterday, listening to the canned AP news on the radio, I heard loose talk about “massive” or “deep” or “sweeping” or “drastic” budget cuts. This was how they described the dread “sequester”–a plan to cut $85 billion from a federal spending package of $1,000 billion and change.

Cutting 85 from 1,000 is “drastic”? We expect Washington to lie to us, but must the big news agencies lie, too? If you had a thousand jelly beans and I took 85 of them, you probably wouldn’t even notice.

Even with the “massive” cuts, our dear leaders will still have plenty of money for sensitivity training sessions, Lear jets for all the bigwigs, vacations galore for the Worst Family, subsidies for Planned Parenthood, money-laundering schemes disguised as grants for “green” enterprises, and fancy fighter jets for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

Thanks to our lying, lazy, running-dog news media, our low-information voters are turning into no-information voters.

PS–Speaking of spewing out misinformation, I just noticed that the link I provided to the Chalcedon Foundation takes you to a Wikipedia article characterizing my employer, my publisher, a worldwide Christian ministry, as a hate group that wants to put homosexuals to death. They get this information from another hate group, a real one, the Southern Poverty Law Center. Please ignore this load of lies. For information about Chalcedon, please visit our website, http://www.chalcedon.edu .

At the ripe old age of 82, Clint Eastwood, the actor who has pretensions of being a Republican, has decided it’s just jim-dandy with him if men “marry” men and women “marry” women.

His defense of himself for going over to the Dark Side is that he just doesn’t care who gets married to whom. Oh, well, Clint, that’s just great. Where should we erect your statue?

Well, you should care. It is not possible for “gay rights” and religious liberty to co-exist. The only way they can make same-sex mock-marriage stick is by either silencing Christians or forcing them to join in the orgy of moral corruption. It is not inconceivable that Bible-faithful Christians will someday be actively persecuted in this country for not going along with this abomination.

But Eastwood is only one of a whole stampeding herd of faux Republicans who have suddenly “evolved” into supporters of this satanic effort to estrange the people from their God. I only pray that God remembers, when He judges the United States, that not all of us went aboard this ship: the U.S.S. Ship of Fools.

Saturday night at our place is time for “Imagination Theater,” a cornucopia of original radio dramas (and comedies) by Jim French Productions.

We’ve been enjoying this for years. It used to be broadcast on one of our local radio stations, complete with interruptions and cancellations for stupid sports events until it was finally dropped altogether. So we listen online ( http://www.jimfrenchproductions.com ).

Our favorite series is “Sherlock Holmes” starring John Patrick Lowrie as Holmes and Larry Albert as Watson. Lowrie is something else: he does Basil Rathbone to a T. You might even think of it as Basil Rathbone imitating Lowrie.

These voice actors are really something. Imagine how hard it must be to make the character come alive without being able to use facial expressions or body movements, to impart varying degrees of emotion to your lines without hamming it up. And some of them are such vocal chameleons that you just can’t tell who was who until they give you the cast at the end of the show.

The stories themselves are pretty cool, too.

If you’re too young to have grown up in the pre-television era, in which radio was king, you may never have heard radio drama. Heck, I grew up with TV. But radio is its own art form and these plays are tremendous fun. More than any visual medium, radio engages one’s imagination. If you don’t have an imagination, you probably won’t enjoy Imagination Theater. But then if you’re that dull, you probably aren’t reading this, anyway.

Very shortly after I posted my little review of The Shadow Over Innsmouth yesterday, I received news of the Massachusetts State Legislature‘s rush-rush, late-night passage of a “Transgender Rights and Hate Crimes Act.” The news came with photos of a crowd of ugly, coarse-featured men in dresses and lipstick thronging the State House to celebrate their victory over sanity and decency, courtesy of their state’s Democrat ruling class.

The pictures were really much worse than anything H.P. Lovecraft ever imagined.

Maybe his Innsmouth story was true. Looking at those pictures, one can’t help thinking, “This is what comes of worshiping devils and mating with fish-demons from the ocean depths.” How else could such things be?

I’ve been gently chided by one of my esteemed colleagues in my “Playground Player Chess Forum” (see http://www.chessgames.com ) for being “too radical” on social, political, and religious issues.

My stars. They’re out there trying to overthrow every timeless standard of truth, goodness, and morality, and I’m radical. They want to tear down and re-invent humanity’s most basic societal institutions, like marriage and the family, and I’m radical. Mr. Crawling Vermin from Utah, the media’s favorite Republican, says same-sex mockmarriage is “a conservative value,” and I’m radical. They steal a national election and allow a sham president to govern as a king, and I’m radical. They pass 2,500-page “laws” without even reading them, and I’m radical.

So be it. Amen.

You have got to see this: on www://theblaze.com, Feb. 19, “USDA Whistleblower Speaks Out About Controversial ‘Cultural Sensitivity Training’ Seminar.”

It seems like the federal government is branching out from fantasy into horror. So here we have government employees of the Dept. of Agriculture being turned into mindless zombies for the sake of “diversity.” The Blaze has video.

Here we have some nasty skraeling coercing the USDA employees to chant garbage like, “The Pilgrims were illegal immigrants.” We wonder what he is paid for this. We also wonder what it has to do with carrying out the normal duties of a Dept. of Agriculture agent. And because these poor devils need their jobs, they obediently repeat whatever words he puts in their mouths, and all their adulthood and self-respect flies out the window. How come “diversity” always strives to erase any independence of thought?

Is this America? It looks and sounds like something out of an H.P. Lovecraft story, or maybe a scene cut from “Rosemary’s Baby.”

Let me conclude by saying only this. In all of human history, there has never been assembled such a collection of fools, liars, hypocrites, thieves, knaves, and villains as comprise the present government of our poor country.