OK, I'm back but I don't know for how long.

Well, today's election day. By being away for the last few years I've managed to avoid arguing with the liberals which frequent Mindsay.

Generally, I try not to argue politics, especially during election years. Reason seems to flee from most people as their minds attempt to fend off any alternate reality trying to filter its way in. Can't say that I'm any different, but I try to keep it civil and non-personal. Others don't.

I have figured out in my 66 years on this earth that a lot of folks vote with their own welfare in mind. Can't really blame them, of course, but it's not necessarily the best in the long run. But then, the poor and the young don't think much about the long run, many of them are just trying to exist from day to day.

And of course the world that liberals would like to live in (as opposed to the one they got born into) does sound nice. As a preacher I used to know would say, "sounds good, preaches good" At my age, the one I got born into seems better than the one I have now, so I understand.

Unfortunately, it isn't within man's grasp to attain the world they seek. As I noted before, everybody want the world to change so people are better but none of us feel that we're the ones who need to change. Many a mother in the ghetto complains about the drug dealers selling to their children when it's their children who are the drug dealers.

A man said once to God, "Why do you allow such misery to exist on earth?" God replied, "Why do you?"