{"id":15786,"date":"2012-03-25T17:40:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T00:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=15786"},"modified":"2012-03-25T17:42:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T00:42:24","slug":"its-sunday-and-ill-be-damned-if-i-aint-thankful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15786\/its-sunday-and-ill-be-damned-if-i-aint-thankful\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Sunday, and I’ll be damned if I ain’t thankful!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jimmy Klein and young Gavin M. George<\/a> got my Sunday started right. I love Sunday despite the fact that I don’t believe anything I don’t have to, and most especially do I love to start my Sunday with the Sun God of my own idolatry: The blinding brilliance of a fully-conscious human smile. The world abounds in wonders of the mind, and all we can remark on are the travesties of mindlessness.<\/p>\n

Me, too, make no doubt, and yet I am thankful this Sunday to President Barack Obama, the Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the Black Panther Party, the mainstream media and the entire TwitBook Mafia. I have never in my lifetime seen a racist lynch mob in action, and I am grateful to all the participants for showing me what menacing racial prejudice — judging by race in advance of determining the facts — looks like. If you are worrying about the fate of poor George Zimmerman — whose race, apparently, is white-enough-godammit! — console yourself: He can always avail himself of gay marriage. In the game of identity politics, gay men — born-that-way-godammit! — trump every other card. And that’s a consummation we all might as well be thankful for.<\/p>\n

So I guess I should be thankful for Bill Maher<\/a>, who argues that snarky-on-wry is about all any of us can bring to the show, most days. And I think he and I both should be grateful that no one expects us to be funny like South Park<\/em> is funny<\/a>. A demand for actual excellence could put just about anyone into another line of work.<\/p>\n

And totally snarklessly, I am 1,500 words into what I hope will turn out to be the most practically useful philosophical essay I will ever write. When I’m done, will anyone read it, all the way through, all the way to the end? I<\/u><\/em> will, again and again over the years, if I get it right. I don’t know that I have improved any life but my own. But I know that what my life is now is a direct consequence of the things I have Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jimmy Klein and young Gavin M. George got my Sunday started right. I love Sunday despite the fact that I don’t believe anything I don’t have to, and most especially do I love to start my Sunday with the Sun God of my own idolatry: The blinding brilliance of a fully-conscious human smile. 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