moral rot

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It really shouldn’t have been any surprise, that the Bad Bunny performance would be so ridden with vile content (in whatever language it was “sung” in).   Or there was one person who is now a bit more educated on matters than I had been before this morning.  I understand now, and I see that “entertainment” like what happened at the Super Bowl is just going to continue and grow increasingly worse.

It turns out that ever since 2020 or so the Super Bowl halftime shows have been produced by Jay-Z.  The guy who made an unconscionable amount of money rapping about gangs, drugs, sex, violence… you get the picture.  I will never understand why it is that some of the most negative aspects of the human condition are so commonly deemed to be high art to be praised by all.  But we are far from the glorious years of ...

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Looking around, seeing all the anger and hatred, coming from all sides it seems of American culture.  Feeling like I’m an outsider to it all, can’t figure out where I fit in.  Not that I’d really want to fit in.

What has happened since Charlie Kirk’s passing has been especially troubling.  I can’t remember the last time I saw so many people rejoicing over the death of a man.  Especially an innocent man.

How did we come to this?  How do we overcome it?

Some people, it seems, want to hate others.  And they are getting angry when they express that hatred and there come to be consequences of it.

(Why anyone would openly post on social media that they are delighting in the death of a fellow human being, I’ve no idea.  As has been said, “The Internet never forgets.”  Some people are learning that the hard way now.)...

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Ruins of the Capitol
from the video game Fallout 3

It’s been several hours since some semblance of a historical event transpired here in America: Kevin McCarthy was ousted from being Speaker of the House in the House of Representatives.  It’s the first time that’s ever happened.  McCarthy is now third place in being shortest term of office for a speaker.

I’ve taken a peak at some of the more prominent online news and politics forums.  And this has obviously been an event arousing considerable discussion, anger, and triumph.

But the best I’ve been able muster up is an indifferent shrug. 

Once upon a time, I would be following the ouster of Kevin McCarthy with intense interest.  It IS the very first time in American history that a House speaker has been tossed out of the position, after all.  In days past my eyes and ears would be absorbing every ...

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Danny de Gracia

Friend, fellow writer and fighter-in-the-good-fight Danny de Gracia has published some well-recommended thoughts this week about the correlation between the quantity of legislation and the resulting amount of public morality.  It has been the conventional wisdom throughout history that more laws equals a more perfect society.

But does it really?  De Gracia doesn’t think so.  In fact, as he writes in separate pieces for The Washington Times as well as his own blog, the ever-growing volumes of law being produced have made things worse.  They are, in truth, a symptom of a far worse problem: the spiritual condition of the human heart, which no act of government can change.

From de Gracia’s essay in The Washington Times:

When first-time candidates run for office, most pitch a platform
promising “change” in the form of new laws. Incumbent legislators are
often attacked by challengers not for the number of

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Jobs are evaporating.  Manufacturing is disappearing from our shores.  Millions upon millions of undocumented immigrants are flooding across our borders.

And now, at long last, the population of Americans on government food assistance outnumbers that of private sector employees.

This is not sustainable.

From the story at CNS News…

The number of Americans receiving subsidized food assistance from the
federal government has risen to 101 million, representing roughly a
third of the U.S. population.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates
that a total of 101,000,000 people currently participate in at least
one of the 15 food programs offered by the agency, at a cost of $114
billion in fiscal year 2012.

That means the number of Americans receiving food assistance has
surpassed the number of full-time private sector workers in the U.S.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), there were 97,180,000 full-time private sector workers in 2012.

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This is Lois Lerner, who headed the Internal Revenue Service’s exempt organizations division during the time that the IRS was singling out “tea party”-affiliated groups and other politically conservative people with audits and intimidation…

Lois Lerner, Internal Revenue Service, taxes, government
Where do these people keep coming from?

Lois Lerner of the IRS invoked the Fifth Amendment so as not to potentially perjure herself during hearings in the House of Representatives investigating her agency’s unethical and illegal activities.

Every year, you and I and millions of other Americans have to file 1040 forms with the IRS.  If we don’t, we go to jail.  If we withhold information on the 1040 forms, we go to jail.  If we don’t sign the forms, we go to jail.  At no time does the IRS afford us the right to invoke the Fifth Amendment so as not to incriminate ourselves. 

Lois Lerner in her capacity as a high-ranking official of ...

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And by that I mean, Kermit Gosnell has chosen life in prison.

He could have chosen death.  Gosnell dropped his appeals in exchange for life, not death.

I’m not the first to note the irony that given a choice, Gosnell chose life.

If only his victims had been given the same choice…

Kermit Gosnell, abortion, abortionist
Kermit Gosnell: He chose life for himself, death for babies.

Kermit Gosnell, abortion “doctor”, found guilty yesterday of murdering three babies (he had been charged with killing four) during botched abortions at his “clinic”. Gosnell was quoted as remarking that Baby A was “big enough to walk around with me or walk me to the bus stop.”

You may not have heard much about Kermit Gosnell. In fact, you might not have heard anything at all about him. The mainstream media was curiously quiet about his case. I don’t know whether it was because the details about went ...

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The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft, Ryleh“That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth. The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom. Meanwhile the cult, by appropriate rites, must keep alive the memory of those ancient ways and shadow forth the prophecy of their return.”

— from The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft

It was 1928 when Howard Phillips Lovecraft published The Call ...

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One of the classic signs of imminent collapse of a culture is the brazen decadence that its leaders and elites start to exhibit.  Nero and Commodus magnified lavishness to scales unprecedented even as the Roman Empire was rotting from the inside and slowly collapsing.  The nigh-invincible Babylonians were in a drunken stupor of self-edification until Cyrus invaded and Alexander after him.  Louis XVI wasn’t a “bad” man per se but he was too busy partying and having fun while being horribly negligent about the affairs of the French people… and then he lost his head as bad as anyone could.

There are too many other examples that could be cited from the tale of years.  And you would think that we might have learned something from six millenia’s worth of them…

But here was the scene last night at the White House.  In spite of the “sequester” that is halting ...

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