every day in every way we are not getting better and better

I'm guilty of playing fast and loose with the idea of sin.  What I meant by the original original sin was when the first protozoan killed its neighbor in order to eat it.  From that point on it had to kill to live.  Even after we went on land and developed our gargantuan brains that enabled us to ponder morality and to decide that killing was wrong we had to continue doing so in order to live, or as Robert Penn Warren wrote in All the King's Men: Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. 

Well we could be vegetarians, but that means killing plants which is how the original original sin began.

I'm sure we've discussed this before but I do not think we are advancing morally.  Actually this is a recent development which began of course in 2016.  Up to that time I had believed that The Liberal Agenda was slowly but surely advancing.  We had eliminated slavery, gotten universal suffrage, allowed gays equal rights to the point where they could get married.  Knowledge was advancing, education was advancing, people were traveling around the world learning things and spreading ideas We were becoming wiser and more tolerant.  I don't see that happening anymore and in retrospect it probably was never really happening in the past.

And I'm pretty sure that Beagles is still against gay marriage so he wouldn't even consider that progress.  People don't agree on what is moral and what isn't, so it depends on who you are listening to as to whether we are going forwards or backwards in that regard.

And as the proud bearer of a degree in psychology from the prestigious University of Illinois I have to say that we don't know much more about mental illness than we did when we believed in evil spirits.  We give them pills like magic potions and cross our fingers that something will work, because we don't know what is going on in there.


The thing about that Gallagher guy is he did not kill in the fog of war, this was a prisoner already captured. I thought Beagles would have some army pride in punishing people for doing that, and maybe that it would not be so compliant with the prez's tweet.


A recent ABC/Ipsos poll says that 70 percent of Americans think that Trump withheld aid to Ukraine  for political reasons.  That's a little heartening, though you wonder why anybody could believe otherwise in light of the information which has been flooding down on us.  But I think it's only half the people who believe he should be impeached, but still, a good sign.