Progressive Pet Training

Yesterday a young lady was walking her dog. The golden retriever suddenly stopped and would not move. The young lady reached into her bag and pulled out a doggy treat. Turned out the dog had trained his mistress quite well. As I watched them continue down the street the dog would stop every ten yards or so and would only proceed when he received some chewy compensation. I wouldn't surprise me these days of progressive parenting that many children too know this trick to keep their parents in tow.

At the Beach These Days

At the beach these days it is actually astonishing to see a girl who has not vandalized her own body. How has such graffiti become so fashionable upon a girl's once virgin skin?

The New Cold War of the Compassionists

So Russia has become the Left's enemy? It just seemed like yesterday that the Left was quite enchanted with the Soviet Union and ridiculed then President Ronald Reagan for calling the USSR "the Evil Empire". Now they are doing it. What caused such a lapse of loyalty? Oh, yeah. The USSR is now Russia. The Wall has come down. The Iron Curtain has been opened letting the fresh air into what seems to be growing into once again an olive tree of the Orthodox Faith. This disappointing truth of Soviets morphing into Russians must be quite disconcerting. This is all against the narrative of progressive atheism which they thought was quite settled in that real estate by the Bering Sea. But there something unconscionable like a Christian light has dawned. Also does every day of news replete with Russian red-headed female spies not seem to put one in a James Bond movie? Doesn't one expect to find Sean Connery lifting a glass of sherry as he seeks to find evidence of espionage in every real Republican? Searching the face of every sultry adversary for even the slightest twitch that must convict a treasonous Trump (in the Left's nomenclature isn't 'treasonous' becoming a freshed-up version of 'racist'?)? Of course our tax money has been supporting this 'investigation' for how many years now? I wonder that this kind of investigation with no evidence would have tired out even Columbo. But besides this the other surprising thing: the peaceniks of the sixties have, in an ironic twist, morphed into the Barry Goldwater warmongers, those that would sabotage every rapprochement with our cold war adversary. It is as if any Trumpian thaw between our countries excites a revolutionary rage that seems quite out of character for an ideology that is so totally tolerant, diverse, and so complete with compassion, and holding up the two fingered peace sign. Oh wait: hasn't it been the friendly fist that's been raised?

The Triumph of the Media's Magic Over the Mind

The hatred so many have for our president is quite a tribute to the triumph of the media's magic in making over the mind. It is a spell we are under. And the great strength of an enchantment is one doesn't realize when one is under it.

The Left's Fickle Friendship

Now we have the Left trying to portray President Trump as weak and even treasonous for his summit with Vladimir Putin. I am quite amazed at the Left's fickleness in their friendship. If we only had memories that lasted more than the latest ideological fashion the Left would remember their great friendship with the USSR--oh, yeah, that was when Soviet Russia was Soviet. It was when the country had gulags and Pravda. Now that they are moving more and more away from their communistic past and toward welcoming Christianity back to their country the Leftist once staunch loyalty has become an object of hatred. And what I think disturbs the Left more about their one time bosom ideological friend is that he is not allowing what once were held as various sexual aberrations that through the Pravda of our own country are coming to be accepted and celebrated to overtake their own culture. Could this be what is really the primary motivations for their hatred? I wonder. I can easily imagine if they could they would circumnavigate their one time friend (who they now so hate) with a "NO PLACE FOR HATE" sign. Does anyone wonder at the fickleness in this one time adoration? Of course it all makes sense this Leftist disloyalty to their mother country: Russia is after all now no longer the USSR---and the fact that they, the Left in our own country, seek to make us another USSR this seems a treason of her one time friend. Things seem terribly wrong for this one time ideological ally returning to what is anathema for them: the orthodox path where God, rather than man, is on the throne. Yes, I can understand now why the Left so fumes over the terrible fickleness of what seemed a friendship that would last under the watchful gaze of their true love, a very different Vladimir, Vladimir Lenin.