Yet again the wheels of our lumbering social experiment of a bus are stuck - spinning in a puddle of emotionally muddied conjecturing at the base of our nationally constructed dam, signs of a conveniently ignored flaw in its design, construction, and maintenance - and causes us to lose sight of the enormity of our cultural reservoir, the complexity of the real and perceived historical and social forces it exerts upon that dam, and the reality that it is truly amazing that the damn thing ever existed at all...let alone retains the wherewithal to continue the experiment.
Astounding.
And so it goes...
Richard 
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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