Miscellany

Well, every news outlet is covering the "economic stimulus package" with some kind of bated breath, as if it will answer all our problems. I have felt for some time that it is simply a tyrant (in this case the federal government in bulk: no one person in particular) taking advantage of the fear of the masses to get them to accept things they normally wouldn't. I guess some people agree with me, that it will be counter-productive and wasteful at best, and horrific at worst. There is nothing new under the sun, and this hardly looks like change to me.

And I have been amazed at how blatant the outrage over the octuplets born recently has been. Not that there are not legitimate questions for someone to ask, but I find it amazing that if this woman had killed most of the babies, or left them imprisoned in a refridgerator indefinitely, there would have been no fuss. Are we really getting outraged about the right things? I appreciated Tim Bayly's words:

Listen, if people are angry at the cost of the octuplets and ready to tar and feather the mother...

It won't be long before outrage is spawned by other costly births. Think Spina Bifida. Down Syndrome. Cystic Fibrosis. Hemophilia...

And if one slips through the birth canal, the mother will receive death threats and the government will investigate. Dutifully.

And I was amazed by the report of a botched abortion, where the baby was born before the abortionist arrived, and was allowed to die and was thrown away in a bag. If the abortionist had been there to kill the baby before it breathed, no one would have been reporting it. But if the baby gulped air, then we are horrified. Does this strike anyone else as schizophrenic behavior?

We read that children are a dangerous burden. Our selfishness and lack of other-centeredness is the real problem.

Its enough to make me weep, and wonder at God's restraint in not judging us as a nation.

Or maybe He is...