on watching the news

My son insisted on watching the re-run of Charlie Rose yesterday afternoon, and there he was,no not Chuck[who has the coolest job on Tv, and is a terrible interviewer} but henry Kissinger, the old war criminal himself, having found a new lease on life[as it were] with the current adminstration. If you though the usurper in the White House could not reach any lower,ponder that K is a welcomed guest at the white House,and is CONSULTED ON IRAQ!!!!! My God, how terribly frightening that is...I am loathe to discuss politics,simply because it is ultimately a dead end,a plague on both of their houses,gutless,compassionless cowards,masquerading as tough guys.Ugh...
Well,the Mets finally won again last night, the absurd ridiculous inter-league nonsense, brainchild of Bud Selig[OXYMORON}, continues. So instead of seeing the cubs or pirates or Giants we get the Twins and A"s?sigh.anyway, here is John Maine, pitching a fine game a shutout, 4 hits through 7 and 1/3, and Willie pulls him, almost shooting himself in the foot again.This is the Tony La Russa school of managing, which insists you use the closer for one inning only, and a setup man in the 8th.etc. overmanaging,trying to prove how 'smart' you are.sigh.another reason, besides the ever diminishing strike zone,that games last forever.They continue to try to ruin perfection.Baseball is perfect,yet, they contiue to tinker...am reading Flannery O'Connor's Spiritual writings, put out by the good folks at Orbis books.Terrific book, great writer[The Modern Spiritual Masters series by Orbis is an excellent resource. I have and have read theAlfred Delp.SJ, Perdro arrupe,S. J., Simone Weil, Clarence Jordan,Oscar Romero,Mother Maria Skobotsova and Teilhard De Chardin volumes, and am waiting to read Swami Abishkitananada. A superb series}...The infamous Photograph by the late Kevin Carter is below the cost of war running total for the obvious reason that that IS the cost of war.Only when we view that child as our own child will it cease.