Just another day: In the merry, merry month of May

Is it really just another day?!? I don't think so. This is an odd time. Consider.

• The nuke's on you. North Korea just detonated a nuke. Boom. Okay, it was last week. Still, boom! Considering we've lived with nukes all our lives, we have treated that little rumble in the western Pacific as no more significant than another Yankees win. I don't think we can fathom the inferno and devastation that a well-placed nuke would bring. Perhaps those survivors from the outskirts of Hiroshima or Nagasaki could enlighten us.
  

Thing is, in our lifetimes, the nukes have been held by folks who knew and understood the serious nature of the weapon in their hands. They comprehended the mass destruction that would be unleashed upon their foes. These nations were sane and civilized with the possible exception of Pakistan.

Now, North Korea has a nuke. Does anybody remember their testing of a ballistic missile a few months back? One of Barack Obama's first tests in the international sphere? Not that NK would attach a nuke to a missile. That could reach the US.

And Iran's on the brink. Yawn.


• Race is on. The very best mind in constitutional law to fill the vacancy on the US Supreme Court is an hispanic woman. Just so happens to be. Far more subtle than a nuke is Ms. Sotomayor. Could have far greater impact on the dissolution of our nation, long term. It's not her heritage or her skin color. It's her devastatingly destructive opinion of law. Whim. Eyes wide open vice blind. Determining the merit of the individual vice weighing them in the objective balance of law. Perhaps we'll get to see Sharia introduced at the SCOTUS. Speaking of which...
  


• Greece is the word. Muslims are rioting in Greece. An insult to the Koran, I guess. Rotterdam, second largest city in the Netherlands, now has a population comprised mostly of Muslim immigrants. And they want the laws changed (here). They've got a groove. They've got a meaning.


• America's most wanted. David Jones, not the former Monkee but the pastor, never intended to subvert San Diego law, but that's what he's done. His crime? He and his bride had the audacity to hold a Bible study in their home. GASP! (here) Apparently it is a religious assembly and requires city permits to have such an assembly outside of of religious zoning. Ten to fifteen folks in your home for a Bible study. Wicked criminality. Tupperware parties, poker nights, Super Bowl gatherings, gay love-ins, or pot smokeouts? All okay. Bible studies? Das ist verboten! Ver ah your papers?? It'll cost 'em over ten-grand to get the required permits.


• Don't tread on me. Unless of course your an American whose not from America and really don't want to assimilate into the American fabric. Debbie Lucas hung a flag in her office at a hospital (in Texas of all places) in honor of Memorial Day weekend. When she returned to her Dilbert cubicle, it had be not only taken down but tossed on the floor. There had been complaints, the most vocal coming from her boss who had come to America 14 years earlier. Perhaps the boss should have moved to Venezuela. Or Cuba. You can toss the American flag on the floor all you want down there.

At least gas prices are going back up.