Despicable people

Most likely if Christianity had not been recognized by the Roman Empire the only thing we would know about it was what we read in dusty history books. Or if the Romans hadn’t helped them organize and kick out the dissenters, well who knows what we would have. Maybe we would have those prudish hippies like the early Christians, or maybe we would have a bunch of unprudish hippies like the wiccans, or maybe we would have some wild-eyed animal and infant slaughtering secret avenging cult. Fifteen hundred years it’s just too long a stretch of time, just to many flaps of that damn butterfly’s wings for us to say if this hadn’t happened then something else would have happened. I guess that’s what sells history books, and I guess what makes them interesting, but I don’t think a single incident has that much effect over a thousand and a half years.

But I think you are saying that if the Romans hadn’t interfered all these little cults had gone their own ways and stayed out of politics, then Christianity would have had less of a poker up its ass, and that would have been a good thing. Well maybe, that would have been more like building the new man as opposed to seizing power and ordering your idealistic agenda from above. The new manis the way I am currently using with the KBW. Yes we are stalled at the armed gates of Beaglesonia, but our strategy is that if we can crack this nut, then cracking all the other nuts should be child’s play. Plus, we like to argue.

What right is Shelton defending? The right to talk trash about black people? Is the lesson that the NBA is going to learn is not to try to punish people who talk trash about black people? If this had been some other owner who had done something like this and the value of Shelton’s NBA team was plunging, I’m going to go out on a limb and say he would have been calling for the other guy’s butt.

If you really look into this Shelton guy you will find he is more despicable than you had previously imagined. Not that that’s the point, despicable people have the same rights under the law as decent folk.

A little short this morning.  I have some friends coming in at eleven from Indianapolis, and they will be leaving Friday morning so I might not be able to get back to you until after the weekend.