Sunday, December 12, 2021

Twelve Twelve Twentyone

Today is the day for the perfection of wisdom, for with it we eradicate the darkness of ignorance together with the attachment to views, and we can teach and guide foolish living things.

One year ago today, country music singer Charlie Pride died from the covids at age 86. Impermanence is swift.

The United States will reach 800,000 covid deaths by this Friday.  The world has already seen 5,300,000 covid deaths.

Deadly tornados tore through the midwestern U.S. late last week, killing around 100 people.  I can't even begin to process the terror the storms must have caused, and the grief they left in their wake.

In light of a recent Supreme Court hearing signaling the end of Roe v. Wade, red states across the country are enacting ever tighter restrictions on abortion access, if not bans altogether.

Russian troops are still massed along the Ukraine border, waiting on orders or an excuse to invade.

Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate David Purdue says that had he been in office at that time, he would not have certified the results of the 2020 presidential election, the latest outrage in the far right's war against American democracy nd move toward authoritarianism.

We are five days away from the opening kickoff of the Bahamas Bowl (Middle Tennessee vs. Toledo), the first of the 44 games of the 2021 Bowl Season.

No comments: