"My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally." -- John Dominic Crossan
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Not just Joe Biden; Janet Protasiewicz. And the failure in Kansas to ban abortion. And in Kentucky. Seems like Mikey Poo Poo's god is sending some hella mixed messages.
That whole "You made us be racists by pointing out that we were racists" bullshit reminds me of a line in an Aimee Mann song (called "Calling It Quits") where she says "So I'm wearing the shoe 'till it fits."
This mass shooting is actually one that I'd been afraid of for some time, because the shooter was a firearms instructor and an army reservist and thus knew what the fuck he was doing with all of that firepower. Your garden variety aggrieved, mentally unstable white guy only thinks he knows what he's doing with a weapon of war, so their slaughter number is never as high as it could have been had someone halfway competent been pulling the trigger. I guess we sort of lucked out that he wasn't trying to kill as many folks as possible, or it would have been even worse that it already is.
Thank you again for the podcast (and happy birthday). Briana is up in Humboldt county trying to get the house ready for us to move into, so it's just me and the cat holding down the fort. I hope she makes good progress because it's already getting fucking cold up here.
What happened to the link to the website with the kitties on it?
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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