Just another day: "The angry earth"

Nothing takes place just because. History continues to unfold to its final culmination. Is today just another day? Never. Everybody is one moment closer, even now, to meeting God face to face. Too often I pass my days -- yawn! -- like a hamster on a wheel.

Consider some of the events that have transpired here in recent days.

• Mad dirt. Fox News this morning headlined in eye-popping font "THE ANGRY EARTH." Despite the fact that the planet can show no more emotion than the keyboard I'm tapping (the livid lamp?), it did highlight the fact that folks recognize something's going on. American Samoa and Indonesia touched near 8.0 on Mr. Richter's scale with a day of each other. Hundreds have died. "...and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places."


• Polanski. Director Roman Polanski was arrested in Europe. Do you know why? I hope so. He drugged, sodomized, and raped a 13-year old girl in 1977. He pled guilty to that charge but fled the United States before he could be sentenced. Because he's an award-winning film director, the usual suspects are up in arms over the intolerance of the Victorian right (no surprise that Woody Allen, a smudge who slept with his step daughter, doesn't understand what the fuss is about and Whoopi Goldberg says it wasn't "rape rape"). If you ask me, Polanski should be emasculated. Bill Bennett provides some moral clarity here. "...lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God."


• Evil no more. To declare the American way of life superior to any other is to invite scorn to be dump-trucked upon your head. In the "elevating t-ball to international diplomacy" department, the Empire State Building is honoring communist China's 60 year birthday party. What have they brought us? Orphanages bursting with little girls and a deficit of 40 million women of marrying age all because of their nifty one-child policy. Apart from fertility practices they've brought Asia political and religious prisoners and organ harvesting. Oh, yes, and we did have the Olmpics. Light up New York! More here and here.


• Evi no more, II. OO-go Chavez and MOO-O-mar Qaddafi think we should redefine "terrorism" (here). Isn't that like having Roman Polanski and Woody Allen defining "normal relationships?"


• A "D" in history. Benjamin Netanyahu had to begin his speech to the UN with a history lesson. Israel's president brought documented evidence verifying the Holocaust. Shouldn't any nation whose leader flunks history (i.e. Iran and Venezuela to name two) be immediately suspect on all other issues and be ignored on any topic they would like to bring before the international community? You elect him? Fine, but you're keeping him inside your borders. He leaks out and we'll swat him like a fly. They certainly be allowed anywhere near nuclear power or bottle rockets.

Until next time, eyes to the east!