Tough Guys? It's Relative

Men’s vulnerabilities are complex.  Some men can take enormous pain and deprivation, but give them a flu bug and they shrivel in incredible weakness and intolerance.

Bother That

Does it bother no one that we prosecuted and jailed—at hard labor—Japanese for waterboarding?  That we apparently courtmartialed an American soldier in Vietnam for doing it?  And yet today we say when we did it last decade “it wasn’t torture,” or “it was justified,” or “well, maybe it wasn’t exactly right, but we certainly aren’t going to prosecute anyone for it.”

As conscience dims, a dark state fills the void.

Something we should remember whenever our desire for “safety” and “security” from possible terror attacks tempt us to give up who and what we truly are and should be.  Isn’t it better that hundreds, maybe thousands, of people POSSIBLY be put in danger rather than all of us lose our collective American soul?

Fish In A Barrel Satire

The congressman going to jail for money laundering and hiding his “business’s” profits?  He will be replaced by the prosecutor who didn’t try to bring an indictment against the cop who killed Eric Garner.

Karma To Me

It would have been my mom’s birthday today. Guess it still is.

How many times I hurt my parents thoughtlessly and unintentionally, so unaware and self-focused I was.  I didn’t care enough to know how my words and actions might affect them.  Like they didn’t have feelings, or if they did, were so tough nothing could affect them.  How childish I was, even as a near “man.”

I thought about that recently.  Because now it has been my turn with my children.