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Luke 5:32 I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. The other day I was visiting the ports of call on my television. WITF-PBS, CSPAN 1, LCTV Channel 66, CSPAN2, and PCN (Pennsylvania Cable Network). Outside of sports, I have very little that I watch of commercial TV, and when I do, I feel guilty about wasting my life. We should put TV screens on our graves instead of tombstones given how much time we have given the tube of our waking hours. The above television stations, all commercial free, reminds me how Capitalism can become--and often is-crass. These non-commercial stations actually deliver content worth watching, most of the time. I fear the Karl Marx, for all of his miserable misanthropic manifestos, was right about the inward rot of Capitalism done Corporate. Ain't nothing free enterprise about it. Check your Comcast bill recently?  My monthly bill is $81 for Basic Cable and Internet. That's it. You'd think Comcast was running off of solar...

Well. I was going to write about Ferguson and title it "Confergusony." Decided to veer away from that because I don't know the details. My proposed title suggests how I may see it, but I think this is a profound replaying of white and black issues of mutual misunderstanding and resentments. White on White and Black on Black don't offer the polarizing narrative. The legacy of slavery is still with us and may be forever from what I can tell.  Then I was thinking about the people in Iraq fleeing from ISIS or their newly expanded acronym of Middle-Eastern Caliphate with the Cutlass. Islam is on trial and only the most addled multi-culturist could avoid asking serious questions about a religion that fosters such rage among some of its adherents. These brutes make Mark Driscoll look like a castrated girly-man. Brutes is not even the right name, madmen more like. Iraqis run but can't escape the contagion. Only Jesus is our Refuge, harking back to the Old Testame...