RELIGIOUS NUTTERY

No, I didn't watch the state of the union last night. If I want to listen to old white guys spewing hate I can do that at work over in Marin. Senility? At work. Gross venality? Work. Praise for the rich? Work. Intense dislike of poor people? Work. Repression and taking away rights? Ridiculous ideas about the way the world needs to be run and what's wrong with other people? All of that at work.

So watching Trump gibber was never on the programme.

But the folks in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Texas probably lapped it up. Those are places that I have resolved to never visit, for a whole variety of reasons. In fact there is much of the country that does not feature on any travel plans.


If you cannot find real coffee, Cantonese food, olive oil, chilipaste, a fabulous cheese shop, and a well-stocked bookstore there, plus a library with no restrictions, it's not a place worth spending any time in. Most of this country is so white it's practically grey in that regard.

I left Dutch speakers off that list, because of the wave of collaborators and religious bigots that mass immigrated in the last century and now vote for the solid Christian Fascist ticket. As a Dutch American I wish that weren't so. Damn them. Anywhere with Dutch American religious people is probably awash with assholes.

Fortunately we have access to the markers of civilization here in San Francisco, and to the best of my knowledge the only dangerous religious nuts here are fairly quiescent, and mostly harmless. Although one or two of them did travel to Washington for January sixth. The Jesus-freak of whom I am particularly aware hasn't posted anything on social media in a while, and does not appear to be currently running for office. No, she isn't a Baptist, Jehovah's Witness, Mormon, or Seventh Day Adventist, not even a severe and twizzel-brained Calvinist, although it would have been reasonable to suspect so.


Now if only we could do something about the bloody vegans and anti-tobacco fiends, life here would be quite perfect.



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