The Winter of Our Discontent

The winter of our discontent looms large: unresponsive government, poised to pursue its own agenda; global alliances scrambling to realign; policies tailored exclusively to expediency. Meanwhile, fires are burning everywhere – both literally and figuratively. We feel like we’re all suddenly in California just waiting for the landmass to detach and float out to sea. Everyone knows instinctively that we have hit an iceberg. Luckily – thanks to ‘global warming’ – the iceberg is now smaller than the ship. It may yet make it to port (though with the pirates still out there, one never knows).

School children singing praises to the naked boy emperor has been the story of the week. We’re clearly uncomfortable with that. I suspect it’s not that we have a problem with children singing. It’s Obama we have a problem with. Just wait ‘till Christmas when the Left will counter punch by announcing their own problem with Jesus.

In the midst of all the turmoil, deception, grandstanding, holocaust denying, genocide threatening and pancake feasting – deliberately designed to overwhelm the system and render it paralyzed – one single voice rang out. It rose above the clutter of egos continuously shattering and reassembling, forever re-emerging in unpredictable, increasingly flamboyant avatars. It cut through the steady stream of outrage that has now been dubbed ‘mainstream’. Everybody heard these words, spoken by a sober, well-informed man – so rare in our time – precisely because they cut to the heart of every problem we face today: “Have you no shame?”