Serious Snippets

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I was interested to note that it's hit the national news that many Hillary supporters are considering sitting out the November elections. I don't know what I'll do yet, but I share the anger. Like Fiorella, Hillary has slogged through the fog. All Obama has done is smile, lift up his head and his pointer finger, then let the magic fairy dust take care of the rest.

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Anyone who thinks of the Yearning for Zion sect as a modern-day Little House on the Prairie should read Escape by Carolyn Jessop. Married at eighteen to a fifty-year-old man with three other wives, she was finally able to escape with her eight children five years ago. The religion is weird--the men strive to sire whole tribes of children so they will be gods, each with his own planet, in the afterlife. The wives are in constant power struggles with each other. The children are denied any show of affection. It really brings it home what a sham their whole performance was for the TV cameras a couple of months ago.

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RE THE ABOVE: People through the ages have done such horrible things to each other in the name of religion. Think about the Aztec bloodletting, the Inquisition tortures, the Crusades, the Muslim jihads, Ireland, Bosnia, etcetera, etcetera. We definitely do not live in the best of all possible worlds, but it doesn't help to dwell on it. Just go tend your own little garden. Me--I'm rearranging bookshelves today.