Oh heartless KOTCB, how could you make light of Hiroshima and its symbolic significance - A symbol that cries out for a moral awakening and recognition of the universal brotherhood of man? Well, I've actually been there and I've walked the thriving streets of Hiroshima. I arrived by "bullet train" from Tokyo (which, by the way, had been obliterated in the spring of '45 in a one day firebombing) and slept the night in a youth hostile with other Gaijin in town for the sights. I went to the bomb memorial, saw the steel dome, looked at the drawings of children survivors and watched a filmed documentary on the August 1945 attacks. I even went outside the park and visited the memorial to the Korean slaves who were commandeered to toil in the Japanese railway and it stands outside the "peace park" because the Japanese don't quite consider the Koreans human beings and did not permit them to place the monument inside the gates. It's all very illuminating and though the destruction and suffering resulting from an atomic blast is sickening it doesn't seem to stop people from building the things if they know how or trying to build them if they don't yet have them. 70 years and no moral awakening yet - instead a moral stupor that acquiesces to ever more proliferation of the infernal technology and in the not-so-distant past new and unstable additions to the nuclear family of nations.
Since there has been no moral awakening it looks like we'll have to turn to behavioral science to keep mans warlike passions in check. Ponder the terrible force unleashed fellow citizen... ponder.
She was "sexy", but "too much hard work." I'm a regular Fox & Friends viewer (mostly in protest of the other insipid morning programs like Today and Good Morning America) so over the years I've gotten to know Gretchen Carlson pretty well. Stuck between Steve and Brian she always seemed a prudish scold with an irritating, self-righteous demeanor that I simply put up with because I figured some people in the Fox audience actually liked her persona. It was obvious that Steve and Brian did not, but they were stuck with her like so many talking heads and had to make the best of it - which they did. Besides, she was no worse than any of the other women on morning show TV - I mean, you're only going to find a certain kind of person to do this kind of work and that kind of person is the Gretchen Carlson kind. Then, one day, she was gone and replaced by Elisabeth Hasselbeck and the F&F ratings began to climb, and climb and climb - in two months view...
Greatest Headline of All Time Those readers living outside of Charlottesville, VA or Central Virginia proper might not be aware of the ongoing effort to pull down and move the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee from the town square otherwise known as Lee Park (not named after Harper Lee or Bruce Lee or Stan Lee but after the same Robert E. Lee). Charlottesville is a college town and like all college towns it's filled with college professors and assorted flakes who vote nincompoops into elected office as their representatives so it was no surprise to me when back in April the city council decided to do this : "Despite a pending court case that will ultimately determine the general’s fate, the Charlottesville City Council voted 3-2 Monday night to sell the city’s statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee." "Confederate General" is a sad, marginalizing descriptor for what surly must be one of the greatest Americans to ever walk this land and lead its people by p...
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