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Yet another reason why the American Empire is on the road to hell: Pope Francis says wasting food is like stealing from the poor. Abortion, gay marriage, screwing Mexicans out of their wages to prop up our broken social security system, unjust wars. Unfortunately, hubris is a formidable vigilante. * * * * * * * Speaking of unjust wars, I ran across this quote from historian Will Durant yesterday: The state "spread the tentacles of its power and law over wider and wider areas, and though it made external war more destructive than before, it extended and maintained internal peace; the state may be defined as internal peace for external war." * * * * * * * As a denizen of semi-rural America, this factoid caught my eye: "The population of rural and small-town America contracted over the past two years for the first time on record as young people left to search out work in the cities and birth rates fell." Link. I know my town and our neighbors have seen a slight population decrease, but I didn't realize it was a nation-wide phenomenon. I couldn't imagine living in an urban area, unless it was one with a lot of small-town attributes (like the upper west side of Manhattan), but that's apparently what a lot of young people want. * * * * * * * Based on the quality of young adults I still see around my town, I'm guessing the urban areas are pulling in most of our higher-quality people, leaving us with the white trash. When I attend my youngest son's little league games, I get downright depressed, sitting among the pierced and tattooed parents in the crowd. * * * * * * * Even more depressing: Some of the tattooed guys aren't all bad. I've ran into at least two who are downright polite and speak decent English, the kind of guys I'd drink a beer with . . . if it weren't for the tattoos. That just means tattoos are becoming more and more mainstream, which isn't a good sign. The practice is a throwback to barbarism, literally. Look it up.

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