The Rev Rambles

I hope all my buddies out there are doing well today. It’s 83 here in Montana, and raining. Go figure.

Here are a few notes that have been roaming aound the desk for a week or so:

I send a big juicy kiss to Ellen Goodman, whose latest column carries two jeweled goodies:  She names the senior Iranian cleric who declared that earthquakes were caused by women who didn’t dress modestly. (I wish I could send Lady GaGa to sit on his lap), and, before you Christians can get too uppity, she comments on  the Vatican, which recently ruled that ordaining women is as grave a crime as pedophilia. 

 The really strange thing about the Catholic church is the fact that women are its backbone. If it weren’t for mothers nagging their kids to attend catechism and mass, there’d be no church. If most men weren’t pushed into attendance, you could hold your average mass in a phone booth. Does the church still demand that women have their head covered when entering a church? They did back when I was a captive.

I don’t really know what to  make a country that  has statistics such as these:  21% of Americans believe there are such things as witches and warlocks.  32% believe in ghosts. Only 39% of us believe in evolution. Most Americans can name the seven dwarfs, but can’t name even three members of the Supreme Court. Nine out of 10 high school students can’t find Afghanistan on a map.  Most Americans can name Larry, Curly and Moe as the Three Stooges, but can’t name the three wings of the U.S. Government as Executive, Judicial and Legislative.

My stomach hurts when I think of Glenn Beck speaking from the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech. A man that insensitive should be kept in  a damp rubber room with four pounds of black widow spiders and a mentally disturbed wolf.

The Bozeman  police log has been quiet this week. I only have three entries for you:  A caller heard a loud rumbling noise on the Erwin Bridge at 2:30 a.m. Investigating officers found an elderly man pulling a cart. He said he had been thrown out of his home and was trying to find a place to sleep. The officers gave him a hotel voucher.  And another  caller said there was a kid walking down North 22nd Street with a snake around his neck. She wanted to know if that was legal. She was informed that it was. Then came a call from a man who said his ex girlfriend broke into his mobil home and stole a notebook he uses to “log down incidents inolving her.”

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