Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Sometimes it's nice to disengage...

Again, the blog has lain fallow for around a week. Sorry about this. I keep forgetting that when I don't post, no one else does either. But then we all have lives down here, and sometimes that just takes us away from the world of computering and blogging and online ranting. And I must say, it's nice to take a break sometime.

Because dealing with the nonstop depredations of those with whom we're unfortunate enough to share the planet can just be wearying. Sometimes it's just nice to go off and live your life, blessedly free of religion and crazy religionists, and unhinged political ideologues.

I mean, good grief, in the past week, since the Tiller murder, we've not only had another right-wing psychotic demonstrate his moral superiority to us all by going on a public shooting rampage (today's appalling incident at the Holocaust Museum), but we've also seen a spectacular act of douchebaggery from — as if they could get any worse — Operation Rescue, who have actually had the audacity to make an offer to buy the now-closed clinic of Dr. Tiller. I cannot imagine what they would want it for, except as a chance to showboat. And the Tiller family lawyers, recognizing an exercise in showboating when they see one, have turned them down flat. I mean, how could anyone interpret the purchase offer as anything but tacit approval of Tiller's murder? Even if that is the last thing O.R. intended by making the offer, well, you know, appearances count.

I'd like to think that maybe O.R. have sprouted a sudden conscience, the way your nose sometimes sprouts a pimple while you sleep, and thought that they might turn Tiller's clinic into something like an adoption agency. But then I'm reminded of the fact that radical anti-abortionists don't give a shit about human life unless it's fetal. Once those babies are out of the sanctified amniotic sac, they're on their own! And don't even think about offering them anything like health care.

So, yeah, sometimes, it's just nice to shut the crazy out and decompress for a while. Read a book. Spend time with your family and pets. Resuscitate an old hobby, like gardening or working out. It can be a relief when the lunacy that has taken over our planet gets too much for you. At least, it's a relief that'll last until some enraged, God-soaked lunatic bursts through the door and opens fire.

6 comments:

  1. Thanks for at least a short post. With the TV show on hiatus, no non-Prophets, and this blog on hold some of us are going through ACA withdrawal.

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  2. I haven't heard non-prophets for so long, I think I've forgotten how to rant...

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  3. Sometimes my wife thinks I am obsessed about the separation of Church and State and atheism. I try to change topic sometimes and browse the internet or blog about something else. It is good to switch off, so I completely understand you guys.

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  4. Guillaume: All righteous causes, though a man should get out in the sunshine some.

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  5. I have been trying to start up my own blog (I really doubt though I could keep it all about atheism, though i'm sure it'll come back to similar stuff), but have had to disengage and havn't been able to bring myself to do it due to personal stuff. My dog died horribly actually and it's still eating at me.

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