REVOLTING BENEFITS

The sun is streaming in through the east-window in the room where the television and the computers reside, and it looks like it might be a warmer day than usual for this time of year. Possibly as high as the very low sixties. which is quite tropical for the city. In some parts of the country, like Alabama, or, for instance, New York, it will be around one hundred degrees Fahrenheit, which I believe is considered "balmy" and I have no intention of finding out. In New York they at least have air-conditioning and emergency rooms that can deal with heat prostration, but still.

Looking forward to fog later. The evenings around July Fourth are always grey, and per hallowed tradition people gather on hill tops in SF to shiver in their warm blankets while admiring pale barely visible pastel puffballs in the clouds. No, we don't barbecue then.
Have you ever actually enjoyed a burnt burger while your system is shutting down?

The proper time to barbecue is about half an hour before noon. Sunlight, no wind yet, and live people. A late afternoon cooking session outdoors leads to frozen corpses standing around teeth chattering trying to make small talk over cocktails just a bit too strong.

Our ancestors did not grill weenies at Valley Forge.
That would be the Texans you're thinking of.
They're nuts. You know that.

The greatness of this country is that after the revolution my ancestors, solid hard-nosed New Amsterdam Dutch Calvinists, were forced to treat all those damned heathenish Scotch Irish, Anglo Saxons, and Germans, as if they were actually equals. Revolted, they did. If I were a religious man I would still choose to believe that Baptists, Born-Agains, layers-on-of-hands, snake-handlers, Methodists, Mormons, and a host of others, most particularely evangelicals, were all heading straight to hell, instead of as just considerably less intelligent fellow citizens. And because they were in New York, not Europe, the peace of Munster (1648) could not possibly apply to them.

The license to destroy Papists, Iberian outposts, et autres, would still stand.

Instead, we treat them all as being rather human.
We could change, you know.



It should not surprise you to know that I have a long list of heretics and idolaters holding public office who in a righteous universe would be burned at the stake.
It spans the entire rightwing gamut.



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