Here Comes the Religious War

 It's cold outside.  0830 and the temps are still below freezing.  The forecast is that they're expected to rise up into the low 40s (F) today, with a more decent warm-up tomorrow.  Wednesday they should be near 60 (F), but the forecasters are also calling for rain.  

Being a Sunday, and being that I didn't have to work, yesterday was rather noneventful.  I did drive down to York for lunch with my friend Betsy.  I'm a bit worried about her.  She's a bit older than I am and still works full time.  She'd like to retire, but doesn't know if she can afford to do so.  She's also one of those people who, if she's not getting up and going to work, will lollygag around the house doing nothing.  Oh, she might turn the pages of a book, but that's the only exercise she'd be getting.  When you hit a certain age, you need to either maintain your activity level, or increase it slightly.  Slowing down will only speed things up, if you know what I mean.

Speaking of increasing my activity level, as I sat at my desk downstairs going through my email, I knew the time had come to start in errant on the next book.  I've done notes so far, even dashed out a chapter or two, but the writing does need to commence.  

I did watch the Oscars last night.  I'm sure some people may be upset because their favorite movies won nothing.  This is how the Oscars fall.  I didn't get a chance to see either The Brutalist or Anora.  As far as I know, neither of them played around here, or if they did, they were in and out in a week.  Even though there were 10 films nominated, there were only 3 or 4 that were actually contenders.  It was good to see Goldie Hawn, for being 79, she's held up pretty well.  Meg Ryan?  Wow, she's had way to much work done.  And who ever thought Mick Jagger could be so funny!  I was not impressed with the Quincy Jones tribute.  The Wiz was not, by any means imaginable, a hit.  He has done far more impressive work, but I guess the producers felt they needed a production number since they choice to cut out the nominated songs.

And this is the fortune I found in my cookie yesterday.

President Musk, his mother, and one of his test-tube kids flew in Air Force One from Mar a Lago to Washington last evening.  An official car met them at the airport and chauffeured them to the White House where, it seems, Elonia has taken up residence.  Nothing strange there.

The fact that the Kremlin is saying the United States is no inline with their political views is wrong.  There are a small number of mindless Republicans who desperately want to model America after Russia.  The vast majority of Americans realize that Putin is our enemy.  These Republicans don't understand that the Russian Orthodox Church is the state religion in Russia.  One country, one religion.  Here in this country we have so many varied and different denominations because we have freedom of religion.  The Evangelicals desperately want to run the country, however I'm fairly certain the Southern Baptists would disagree.  They don't really like each other.  And the Catholics?  Alito may be one, but obviously no one has ever told him that Evangelicals simply despise Catholics.  They call them false Christians.  And this is the set before adding the Episcopalians, the Methodists, the Lutherans, and the Presbyterians, just to name a few.  Now, I don't know about you, but I see a very bloody religious war happening if the Republicans get their way.