The Nature of Things

Hat tip to Daily Kos and Tom Tomorrow for the cartoon and to Donald Trump and company for the idea behind it.

Nearly five years ago, in August 2010, I was very mad and I wrote a blog post expressing my anger. That post was brought back to mind this morning when a reader from somewhere happened upon it, and it showed up on my radar.  Looking back at it, I can see why that reader might have accessed it. Five years have passed but religious tolerance has not improved in this country. We have armed thugs standing outside a mosque in Arizona trying to intimidate Muslim worshipers. The hate-filled Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas is still in business and still spewing its venom. People like Bill Maher and Pamela Geller have a national following of admirers who hang on their every word. Fox "News," the evangelical Christian network, is still providing a slanted view of the world to their overwhelmingly "Christian" viewers. Honestly, it is hard not to despair of the country ever becoming the non-sectarian ideal envisioned by our Founders. Here's what I wrote in 2010. S...