Rev Dr Sparky on Real/igion

Tag: Politics

  • The Real Reason We Don’t Get Along

    Photo by Ben Wicks on Unsplash We’re living backward. Americans, they say, are ideologically and culturally split down the middle, just like that cheap pair of pants I foolishly bent down in that time. Since the Founders, we have always enjoyed a lively back-and-forth exchange of ideas, but now it appears the division is becoming personal…

  • The Rise and Fall of Gloryland

    A future history in fable Long ago and far away, a beautiful country called Gloryland was founded upon a green and plentiful continent by pale people with a vision of equality and freedom. To prepare the land for this vision, they carefully removed all the dark people who lived there, and then brought in other dark…

  • Hate to judge but love to condemn?

    Here’s what happens when we get it backward. Years ago, I was listening to a radio report of an impending local election on a special referendum. As I understood it, the city was going to vote on the Wet Bra Issue. Well, I was immediately offended, loudly proclaiming to my partner that this nonsense was…

  • Time for the ultimate boycott

    Image by Anthony Easton on Flickr With actual boys You may recall Aristophanes’ classic Greek comedy, Lysistrata, in which Lysistrata and a critical mass of other women take action to end the seemingly endless Pelopponesian war. You probably didn’t read it in high school, because it’s pretty crude, but maybe in college. And if you have a…