So Tejas governor Rick Perry is going to throw his hat into the ring for the republican nomination. Really, people? Are you kidding me? A smarmy, neo-confederate, evangelical Texican praying for a resolution to the debt crisis? I have no doubt that Jesus Christ himself would tell us in lilting Aramaic to pull our thumbs out of our asses and reach for a settlement, not stand around in a stadium groveling for forgiveness of our sins with outstretched arms. Fix the bloody thing and save your wishes prayers for grandma’s recovery from hip surgery.
Christians should be grateful for the concept of sin. The whole religion is built on it. Sin is the denominator of Christianity- if it collapses to zero the whole religion becomes undefined. Without sin, our cherished fraternal hatreds would resolve to mere anthropology and lose that zesty cosmic fizz that we so enjoy.
Lamentations on Chemistry 
As a friend said to me at the pool yesterday, the upcoming presidential campaign will have at least one candidate saying “A vote for me is a vote for Jesus”. And that’s a winner slogan down here in North Carolina.
Amen brother.
I guess I’m going by the rule that if my candidate thinks he speaks for a deity, he’s either really dumb or the universe has a sick sense of humor. And if I vote for him, I’m even dumber.
I’d also like if people weren’t dumb enough to believe that people who spent their last thirty years in power playing reverse Robin Hood are going to magically reverse the cash flow to solve the problems they created…by doing the same thing. “It’ll work this time for sure!”
Check out the column on p. 11 of today’s (Saturday’s) WSJ.
Put $75K into Mr. Perry’s campaign coffers and get back $4.5 million as an “Emerging Technologies Grant”. Pay yourself a high salary and then go bankrupt.
It’s the Texas way. In other places it’s called “Crony Capitalism”.