Okay, so, it’s been a while since my last post. But that doesn’t mean the little hamster wheels haven’t continued to churn. They’ve been churning mostly about corporate America, which is my excuse for not having posted recently (and hopefully, I’m brewing up a good post on this, at least it’s all there in my head). They’ve been churning on KJ and Fargo, and that, friends, is enough to drive me to drink right there. They’ve been churning on the economy.
And the little f*ckers are churning on religion, polygamy, and child abuse at top speed.
I’ve actually been saving up one of my favorite Cary Tennis (columnist for Salon.com) pieces for a while, planning to write about left-coast liberalism (LCL) and his interesting take on our beliefs about racism and other social no-nos…but I’m co-opting some words of wisdom because they just freaking work with this topic, too.
And how can you miss it? The prairie-skirt-clad women of the poetically named Yearning for Zion Ranch (aka the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), aghast at the government raid on their compound, the separation of them from their children (and underage marriage fodder)?
I know my liberal street cred is going to take a huge hit with this one, but…well, who really cares? It’s been dubious since I turned 30 anyway. I’ve been asking myself some questions that are not necessarily unique, but which certainly don’t have many answers, about these people. And I’m having a hard time with it. Does anyone else get a whiff of a burning pyre for the witch hunt? Does anyone else see certain parallels with society-at-large’s treatment of gay marriage?
Wait…before you freak out…allow me to explain. (more…)
