Brother, can you spare a Bitcoin?

Did Uncle Ken celebrate the loss of Moore with a mess of grits and a bowl of boiled peanuts, fine Alabama delicacies that I recall fondly?  Only the most cultivated of palates can appreciate their subtle goodness. 

But that was something last night, wasn't it?  If the reddest of states can veer away from the dark side it does not bode well for the GOP in 2018 and perhaps the worm has turned.  Trump hasn't had a very good month and some of lies are starting to catch up with him.  He's denied knowing, or ever having met, the women who have accused him of sleazy behavior but the photos and interviews tell a different story.  It seems that he has completely lost his grip on reality, such as it was, and I expect the final meltdown, soon.  The Secret Service will step in with tranquilizer darts and a straitjacket, and that will be that.  Pence won't last long, what with obstruction of justice charges looming in his future, so that will leave us with Ryan.  A hell of a mess in any case and I wonder what is running through Putin's mind today; his plans may  have gone awry.

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Bitcoin mining is a crazy business and I think it's a bubble waiting to burst.  Yes, it's possible to earn money with it, but at no small expense.  Algorithms change and new hardware will be required to keep up, and the electrical usage is astounding.  There are plenty of videos available that describe the issues so I won't mention them further but they may be of interest.  Unless you have a really cheap source of electricity and don't mind a lot of noise and heat I don't think it's worth the trouble.  I expect a lot of people will be going broke following that dream.  Cryptocurrency, in general, is a solution in search of a problem in my opinion.

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So, how do we know that Jesus is the only begotten Son of God?  It doesn't make God look very all-powerful if he can only have one kid.  But maybe, just maybe, there have been dozens, hundreds, millions of offspring, sons and daughters both, and humans, being contrary in the execution of their free will simply ignored or killed them in the interest of societal stability.  It doesn't seem impossible to me, except for the blameless of sin part which, I think, is a requirement for legitimate Children of God.  And now I'm starting to wonder if God has free will; he changed his mind a lot in the Old Testament, didn't he?  As an atheist I shouldn't ask such foolish questions.