Lubbock Power Outages

 The city just loves to tax and spend but they don't want to put a dime into existing infrastructure or city services, which are pretty abysmal. We have far too many power outages. Had one this morning that only lasted a second or two but that was enough to knock my computer down and force me to do a lot of resetting. This is a middle class neighborhood, though, so I don't think they give a damn. In rich parts of town, these things don't happen. Well, the typical church around here will preach that if you aren't very wealthy, it's only because God doesn't love you , and you're going to hell, so why worry when ordinary folks get screwed over? It's just God's will. Chosen vs not chosen. Cut and dried. Calvinism in action. Another way of saying: Fuck you. I've got mine, Jack. In fact, the only message that modern Christianity really has to offer, is a hearty fuck you to 99% of the human race. If there's a way to say FUCK YOU in Aramaic, then I imagine that Jesus said FUCK YOU to almost everyone. Oh well. See, the above is what I would put into a fictional character's mouth. Sort of. That fictional character would be deeply into prosperity gospel, would get off on the idea of killing the homeless, killing the sick and weak, killing people of color, and then go off to a big rich church to congratulate himself or herself on being one of the chosen few, the elect. "Thank you Lard, for making me better than everyone else. Thank you for making me rich and freeing me from the burdens of conscience and compassion, and empathy-- all those un-American and demonic things." And then in my fictional world such people would suffer amazing misfortunes and end up maimed and mutilated and disfigured, buried alive, but not before screaming in agony, eaten by vermin, by worms, by dogs, and only then pushed into mass graves, ALIVE, to be covered up under piles of excrement, and forgotten. Of course, it would HAVE to be fiction because things like that don't happen in real life. 

Nice Sunday morning. Lots of vigils and special services and homage being paid to Mr. Kirk. I did not attend. The throngs of people were just too enormous. I have a thing about crowds.