“The bow of God’s bow is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string.” Jonathan Edward. Sinners in the hands of an angry God, 1742 Dog Whistle, Noun Politics.: A political strategy, statement, or slogan using coded or suggestive language that coveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message. Can we hear it, you and I? Can we hear it in the silence? Can we hear the dog whistles? Hate is a malignancy hiding in silence. Hate is a slimy primordial ooze below the soil like quicksand, waiting to drag a victim down. We… Keep reading“Weapons of Mass Distraction *”
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BUILD THAT WALL! BUILD THAT WALL! BUILD THAT WALL!
A loud chant, or a quiet poem? “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” In those few precious, well-chosen words Emma Lazarus captured the essence of what I like to think of as the ‘heart’ of my country. I’ve always thought it ironic, that the woman who wrote those words, a woman born into a large Sephardic-Ashkenazi Jewish family, would likely have been turned away trying to escape the horrors of Nazi Germany in the… Keep reading“BUILD THAT WALL! BUILD THAT WALL! BUILD THAT WALL!”