Friends of Padre Steve’s World,
Humor matters. No really, in a time like ours when things all around us are deadly serious. Threats of war, environmental disasters, and maybe even the loss of democracy and the destruction of American institutions by the Trump Cabal and his Cult like followers are very real parts of our lives.
In the aftermath of Attorney General Bob Barr’s release of a three and a half page summary of a 300 page plus report by Special Counsel Robert Muller, in which the Attorney General basically exonerated the President from any wrong-doing without the report being made public or even released to Congressional committees in under 48 hours. The fact that the Mueller probe netted more indictments and convictions than any special counsel in the past 50 years is forgetting, even the media is cowering before Trump and not holding his or Barr’s feet to the fire for not releasing the report.
The fact that Barr is Turing it over to Trump’s lawyers and staff to redact before releasing portions to Congressional investigators or the public is tantamount to obstruction justice by the chief law enforcement officer in the country. No wonder Trump wanted Jeff Sessions out. Despite his personal flaws, politics, and at times sycophantic relation with Trump, Sessions had enough integrity and respect for our institutions not to cover up this report. That’s why Trump fired him. Now Trump has an Attorney General who has written that he would have exonerated Richard Nixon and has rushed to Trump’s Side to suppress the report is more than telling. Barr is the Fox in the henhouse.
Likewise the attacks on Trump opponents by the President, his GOP sycophants in Congress and the Right Wing media have gone way over the top. They know they are hiding criminal activities, and the supposed party of law and morality has no problem with it.
But apart from voting and speaking out I cannot change any of this, so I have to maintain a sense of humor in order to live, thrive, and survive.
Over the past couple of months I have binged watched all eleven seasons of Fraser, the BBC comedy ‘Allo, ‘Allo, the dark comedy After Life with Ricky Gervais and now have started on Cheers.
I need to laugh, especially in times like these.
So I think of Jimmy Buffett’s chorus in the song Changes Of Latitudes, Changes Of Attitudes, which is dear to my heart:
With these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudesNothing remains quite the same.
With all of my running and all of my cunning, If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane
If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane…
So until tomorrow,
Peace,
Padre Steve+
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