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It's odd... I was going to make a graphic like this because of the "Torture Bill" that passed last week. It seemed like a cause for mourning that we no longer consider the Geneva Conventions to be applicable to us. That strikes me as being very, very bad.

Now a much more visible evil has struck once again... to the Amish, of all people. They don't normally figure very largely in my life, but they have been coming up in conversations lately. One of the creators of the animation I am writing (see previous post) says that the concept is modelled after them. It's a small thing, but adds a little to the sadness over the events. And now that the Amish are being talked about and interviewed, it is clear how innocent they really are. If any community of people is actually close to God...

Meanwhile, we have hypocrisy right out there for all to see. One of our Congressmen was caught with his pants down. There's nothing new in that, just another irony in that he was behind legislation to combat the very thing that brought him down. It happens all the time. Here in New Mexico some guy pushed through some "tough" legislation against drunk driving. I guess he went downtown to celebrate with his buds, and guess what he was busted for that night. Yup, DUI.

It makes you wonder. I have often thought that hypocrisy must be built on the notion that as long as you save other people from doing it, it supercedes your own tendencies toward that very sin, and somehow balances everything out. It balances nothing of course, and it's just a matter of time until the artificial construct topples of its own weight.