To Annoy

Finished and truly appreciated Cormac McCarthy’s postapocalyptic novel The Road. For a really good review: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/books/review/Kennedy.t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 . Other imaginative ones in this or similar genre. Alas, Babylon. Earth Abides. On the Beach. Life After People. The Day After. For Narnia lovers, The Last Battle. Not to mention Apocalypse, the Revelation to John. "Enjoy" isn't the right word. To enjoy these one must like horror and being dangled in suspense scared half to death, so -- appreciate for the skill and art of it, and for the message.

“The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you know not whence it comes or whither it goes ...” (John 3:8). Actually, John has Jesus saying this to Nicodemus in an age when it was true, long before weather satellites. Today it's no longer true except metaphorically. We do know whence the wind comes and whither it goes, in fact, it’s daily on the weather channel and in the face of apocalyptic weather forecasts how could any parent have sent a child to school in Oklahoma yesterday.   

The orange  Publish  won’t get pressed for this post because it may annoy or even offend. Two mile wide tornado, anomalic weather for which Pantokrator shares credit or blame, and 20 children, the heart can’t bear it. Shares with whom? Human exacerbated global warming?

St. Sarah says snow in Alaska in May proves there is no global warming: few seem still tuned to this mindless cretin whom even the Fox cut off. But we love to place blame, so who gets it, PantoK or People? Even congressmen have sense enough not to have a committee investigating this. No, it just hasn't occurred to them. 

May annoy? That’s the idea, isn’t it.  Publish 

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