Engaging Life with Courage and Intelligence
For some of us who have witnessed the blatant [hypocrisy…duplicity…perfidy…betrayal…fraud] over the last 45 years, it is hard to believe that some people still cling to the illusion that the GOP is the moral party. Immorality and stupidity happen to every political party and every person. No one is perfect. The real issue is what…
This is a video about the Rebel Who Measured America: George Hume, the Jacobite Exile Who Taught George Washington to Survey. In 1716, a 17-year-old Scottish aristocrat sat in a London prison, sentenced to die for treason. Instead, Britain shipped him to Virginia as convict labor — and accidentally exported a founder. This is the…
Has Trump’s MAGA taken his followers and all of America into an era of madness? Is America REALLY celebrating a beautiful Sunday in a supposedly Christian country with a human cage match on the grounds of our nation’s White House? Has America devolved to become so un-Christian, unpatriotic. and disenchanted that blood sports, celebrated on…
The local Utah Fox Television (Fox10) reports that the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, has declassified Mormons from the ranks of Christians, and they now sit in a category outside Christianity. He said he made this decision to help military chaplains allocate their resources more effectively. The Mormons in Utah are not very happy with…
Although those Republicans who claim to be Christians have every excuse and rationalization thought of by humankind, it is undeniable that they follow the teachings of MAGA more than Christ. Here is a YouTube video my brother found entitled The GOP Jesus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2L-R8NgrA
We live in strange times. Many of the guardians of religious orthodoxy defend the profane and irreligious. Most of America’s founding fathers wisely guided politics away from religion. However, today many are trying to combine and weld politics and religion. The following video examines the MAGA connection to the Evangelicals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO-XDzT2jaU&t=37s
There are rising numbers of American men under 40 who remain unmarried, unpartnered, and unattached, yet seek female companionship. There have always been unmarried men, but the recent increase in their numbers is notable. This video touches on another increasingly frequent occurrence: catfishing. The following video dramatizes catfishing in 2026: https://youtu.be/Zsu7tXSXkDc
This video focuses on the disconnect between the sacred and the profane. How and why do people who call themselves religious vote for an objectively irreligious leader? Are they in a cult? Do they cynically hold their noses, so their political or cultural beliefs trump other beliefs? Do they REALLY believe that President 47 is…
It is impossible to understand or reduce myself to the depths of depravity and ungodliness of our current president. However, it is what it is. The president posted the following to his Truth Social account. This image looks like it was created from someone in the newly created US Department of WAR. Do we see…
The President of the United States said the Iran War would last four to five weeks a month ago. While he will no doubt equivocate about the timeframe if the war lasts longer than five weeks, we all hope it ends as soon as possible. As Mark Twain is reported to have said, “history doesn’t…