The World's Okayest Pastor

On most Fridays and Saturdays you can find me standing along Riverview Expressway in Wisconsin Rapids, WI protesting with my new friends. We are protesting 47's policies and the blatant disregard for anyone who isn't in the top 1%.  What is clear to me is that the top wealthy people want to go back to the feudal system and make the majority of the working class serfs. They do not care if we die because there are more low class people to do the work.  How is this clear to me? The VA's budget is been cut, people fired. Why because it's cheaper to bury our veterans, who were promised and earned their benefits. This administration has cut funding for programs like WIC, SNAP, public schools, cancer research, PBS, VOA, USAID, vaccine development, and countless other programs. 47 has canceled student loan debt reduction and forgiveness programs. There are claims that 47's tariffs are reducing costs and bringing jobs back to America. All of this is being done in the name of...

It's getting close to the 2024 elections and I'm tired. American society seems to be crumbling, and I feel that regardless of how things play out, it's going "to get real." But nevertheless, it's time for me to speak out on Project 2025. I have tried for months to read the document because I want to be informed. But there is not enough blood pressure medicine in the world to allow me to read it all. It boils my blood, and I argue it should most Christian's as well. When you go to the Project 2025 website it opens with "Project 2025 is a historic movement, brought together by over 100 respected organizations from across the conservative movement, to take down the Deep State and return the government to the people." What is the Deep State? As far as I know there is no Deep State but let's scare people into thinking there is. Who are these 100 respected organizations? They are organizations like the American Family Association, Family Policy All...

At the opening ceremony, for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, the organizers/choreographers had various pieces of art involved. They literally carried the Olympic Flame through the galleries of the Louve. As part of the nod to fashion and to demonstrate the welcome to everyone, a runway was set up on a bridge where people, representing many groups, sat, danced and walked the runway.  At one point there was a group of performers sitting at the runway. I'll admit that I thought that it was a nod to the Last Supper painting by DaVinci. But as I looked at the setting and especially after I looked at all of the screen grabs going around, I was pretty certain that it wasn't a live enactment of DaVinci's work. Instead, it was more of a nod to a Greek tradition - a loud party, called a bacchanalia. Are there some artworks that depict this ancient Greek tradition in a similar style and setting as DaVinci's work? Sure. I say all of this because in less than a few hours of the open...