With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
April 24, 2008 - 2:25 p.m.
Today’s weather is perfect. It was so good I decided to walk to the LIRR station this morning. I doesn’t take much more time than driving because I don’t have to spend time looking for a parking spot. I really should do it more often. I’ll probably drive when I go back because I don’t want to walk back at night after school. To make up for it I’ll try and walk from Penn Station up to school. I’ve been on a walking kick. Yesterday I walked to the supermarket to get my corn. It is on sale for 20¢ an ear and I’ve been getting it fresh all week. According to Google maps it is 1.3 miles from my house. That’s seems about right. I have to walk further. Those walks didn’t push me at all.
I almost wore my linen suit today for the first time this year. I decided against it but I shouldn’t have. I’d be more comfortable and look better too.
Hillary won the Pennsylvania primary. That’s good. It isn’t what I really want to write about though. She is being rightly criticized for running a negative campaign. What needs to be said in her defense though is that Obama doesn’t have to, others do it for him. The media and public criticize everything she does. The moderators at the last debate were crucified for being harsh on Obama and spending time on minutiae as opposed to the issues. That has been the way Hillary has been routinely treated from day one and nobody objected. Yes they should have not have dwelled on him wearing an American flag lapel pin. They should have dwelled on his pandering to conservatives by offering a non-universal health care plan that you can opt out of and is therefore fiscally unsound. Imagine if he suggested that people they can opt out of the school tax? Who do you think would pay it, only people with school age children. Who would opt for his health care plan? Only those that are sick. You would be allowed to opt in after you got sick so it isn’t a big risk for the individual.
I actually got mad at John Stewart last night. That pretty much never happens. He is both fair and funny, well usually. He was lampooning Hilary’s position on the superdelagates. In doing so he used the standard Obama supporter arguments. I’ll encapsulate them for you my gentle readers.
You have to go by the popular vote and nothing else. The will of the voters is what matters. Well that is unless those voters are from Michigan or Florida, they deserve to be disenfranchised because they broke the rules. Well actually they didn’t break the rules but their state legislatures did but they still don’t deserve to be heard because following the rules is more important that having the right to vote. Caucuses are also an exception. Sure they are biased against the elderly and the infirmed but it is the rules and you have to follow the rules. Aren’t you paying attention? Now for super delegates they should be morally bound to follow the elected delegates. Sure that defeats the entire purpose of their existence and it is not what the rules say they should do but rules don’t matter, it is the voters that matter. Please don’t apply the logic I used in once sentence to the next. You aren’t supposed to be paying that much attention and Hillary is pure evil so she’s wrong.
I want to make clear that I’m not blaming Obama for any of these. I will enthusiastically support him for president if he wins the nomination. I will work on his campaign. Yes I have a huge disagreement with him on health care. His winning the presidency will set back the reforms we need by years but they are still parsecs ahead of what McCain would do. On Iraq I have to hope that he feels free enough to get out the right way, not simply as fast as possible. It isn’t going to be easy and will take great judgment on the part of the president and even the best choices might very well lead to disaster. If the president replaces judgment with ideology (like the current president had done) the disaster will be of historic proportions.
I have to make my linner and call LORi before I go back to school. So I bet put this edition of Wise Madness to bed.
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