I’m going to level with you guys. It’s 2:00 a.m. and I’ve said “do you have Hendricks gin?” to no less than five bartenders in the last eight hours. As such, I am not really in the position to push out a thoughtful, nuanced write-up this week. But I love you all, so here I am - eating chips on my bed at low budget hotel in Parsippany, New Jersey, trying to maintain my weekly newsletter commitment. I won’t get into all the places I’ve been tonight, but one topic of discussion was consistent in every place we went… wtf is up with this Titanic submarine?
Loved this. While I pray for a successful outcome for these men and their families (I am a leftist Christian woman!) I cannot help feeling exactly as you do. When I think of what good that $250,000 from each could have done I want to smack someone. The food banks and homeless shelters it could have funded. The medical research it could have funded. The struggling arts organizations it could have funded. I also think how it is the rich-as-Croesus class that resents poor people for wanting cell phones (a necessary lifeline for all today) or buying an occasional steak with food assistance programs (like maybe they’re celebrating a milestone birthday or a child’s high school graduation)??? Judgement is so easy when it comes downward, and extremely resented when it is aimed upward. No wonder Jesus said it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to go to heaven.
Great headline, that alone cracked me up
Loved this. While I pray for a successful outcome for these men and their families (I am a leftist Christian woman!) I cannot help feeling exactly as you do. When I think of what good that $250,000 from each could have done I want to smack someone. The food banks and homeless shelters it could have funded. The medical research it could have funded. The struggling arts organizations it could have funded. I also think how it is the rich-as-Croesus class that resents poor people for wanting cell phones (a necessary lifeline for all today) or buying an occasional steak with food assistance programs (like maybe they’re celebrating a milestone birthday or a child’s high school graduation)??? Judgement is so easy when it comes downward, and extremely resented when it is aimed upward. No wonder Jesus said it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to go to heaven.