27 February

Well, it looks like we have a new religion--the cult of the Golden Golem. That is evident from what has been covered of the CPAC convention in Florida. They even have an image of their god--a gilded statue of #45 decked out in a U.S. flag outfit and a scepter. My first thought on seeing it was the biblical injunction against graven images. My second thought was of the biblical story of the Hebrews building and worshiping the Golden Calf. My third thought was of a cartoon I saw sometime last year during the campaign. It had two panels with the first showing the scene of the Hebrews worshiping the idol they crafted. The second showed an eerie picture of a gold plated #45 captioned with "Today some people have decided to worship a Golden Ass." The news also took note of a number of (faux)Republicans lawmakers who turned in proxies claiming COVID concerns before taking off for a packed convention in Florida.

Jan In SanFran has a new post on "Pandemic Blues". Pretty much describes the chaos of our pandemic dominated lives. Most of us are stressing out under demands we never expected to have to meet. Parenting plus working at home. Working remotely sometimes having to split time between the teleconferences using media we only recently learned and carrying on in person. Some of us had already had to care for parents and children at the same time trying to earn a living to support a modestly comfortable life. Some of us have moved from working to death to barely scrape by to working to death to not even be able to afford the basics. Most of us desperately want the pandemic to end so we can get back to normal lives but I have mused before on whether that will be possible. I seriously doubt it.

28 February

Here we are at the end of the second month of 2021. How time flies whether you are having fun or not. We are still in the middle of winter though the temperatures seem to hint at spring slyly coming in. I got the gate closed yesterday after we blocked it open at the beginning of the month so we wouldn't find ourselves locked in by a frozen latch. Besides, it is far easier to push snow out of the patio that fling it onto piles that were already shoulder high inside. Those piles are already much diminished but it will be a long while before they are gone because the patio gets no direct sun this time of the year. It doesn't even get strong reflected light until mid-April.

The Wild Hunt posted this overnight. There is an old saying that "once is happenstance, twice is coincidence but a third time is a trend." We are well beyond a third time with the Republican Party tilting toward white nationalism, Neo-nazism, delusional dreams of domination. Mary Pezzulo at Patheos has a more Christian take on the golden statue of #45.