Biblical Proportions

So, as we endure wave after tidal wave of flooding, I think to myself..."You know, Peter, there's an awful lot of standing water...and standing water means mosquitoes...and mosquitoes means West Nile Virus."

Remember West Nile Virus?

That thing was supposed to wipe out the East Coast, from the way the news was reporting it. I haven't seen much mention of it lately, though. It's sort of like the way SARS was supposed to be the death knell of human life as we knew it. Remember when we were supposed to all start buying breathing masks? I'm sure some entrepreuring fashion designer had a whole line of J. Crew aspirators ready to go.

But here we still are. Face-mask free.

Makes you wonder about global warming...which leads me to the bigger fish that I want to fry in the post: namely, irresponsible media.

It used to be the case that false prophets were the ones who always told you that everything was going to be okay; that there was no reason to change the status quo. It seems to me, though, that the false prophets have learned a trick or two over the last few millenia. The real prophets always said live a moral life, or else bad things are going to happen (it's worth noting that cataclysmic things were not usually happening to the listeners while prophets were prophesying to them). So how do you tell the difference between true prophets and false prophets in this day and age? It seems to me that true prophets still say: repent, be saved, do good, and pray. Today's false prophets say: legislate against all those ignorant people who don't respect the authority of news media. True prophets want to instill the virtue, which requires a free choice. False...or should I say...misguided prophets believe that the ends justify the means. The latter will take away our right to virtue in order to save us from ourselves.

And that, my friends, is why we are actually more liberal than the liberals.