Mr Fluffy goes to heaven

Every community has its own board, and I can’t speak for them all, but speaking for Chicago, the solution, well there is never a solution, but it would be better to put more civilians, and not civilians that are ex-cops, on the board. There have been several attempts to do this, but the cop union screams bloody murder every time and in the end nothing happens.

I like you, my esteemed colleague, I hold my judgement in abeyance and don’t pay that much attention until all the facts are in. In the Ferguson incident I was leaning towards thinking that the cop was at fault, because I heard there were all these gunshots in the kid’s back, but then when the smoke cleared, it turned out that there were no shots in the kid’s back, so I changed my opinion.

It seems like the Chicago papers have more conservative columnists than liberals, and that the conservatives are all fire-eaters while the liberals are more wishy-washy and nuanced. Not that there is necessarily anything wrong with being wishy-washy, and certainly nothing wrong with being nuanced. I prefer it to the fire-eaters on the right who know everything they need to know about anything, and most all their columns can be boiled down to two words repeated over and over, ‘Obama sucks.’

I’m pretty sure that columnist was Roger Simon, he is of the liberal ilk, but like I said, nuanced, also he can be pretty humorous sometimes, and he just plain writes well.

I guess torture is like obscenity, hard to define, but you know it when you see it. Clearly the acts described in these reports is torture. Maybe some measures can be taken to curtail it, and I think some have, but there were measures before, and they got swept away like the fuzz of a dandelion. I like to think that if we had somebody in power besides the neocons and Dick Cheney, it might not have happened, but who knows.

And even now there are some voices saying that we should never have released the report, because it will fire up the fanatics, so it’s better just to lie about it. But of course the fanatics already know about it because they are the ones who were tortured. And some say that just by releasing the report we are redeeming ourselves a little, but without punishing those who did it, it is not all that redeeming.

I did a little googling on the pope, and I think what he said was that our animals would join us in heaven, but not specifically that they have souls, though one has to wonder, all those cheeseburgers we ate, will the souls of the cows join us too? I guess we will have the last laugh on the vegetarians with our vast herds of cattle, while all they have will be a lentil field. They say he was speaking pastorally rather than doctrinally. Those catholics, they have so many rules.

I don’t know much about Hindu, I thought they kept getting reincarnated until they get it right and then they plunge into nothingness or something like that, and wouldn’t it be simpler to be an atheist and go right to nothingness the first time out of the gate.