Seeing the Elephant

 Is it me, or is PA politics...interesting?  The rise of the third candidate in the PA Senate primary?  The GOP primary in the governor's race, which is a hot mess?  Hell, even the stroke suffered by John Fertterman to rev up the campaign in that Senate primary?  Maybe because in OH we are in quiet phase; Ryan has ads up, Vance is restocking, and the governor's race is surprisingly quiet; maybe Mike DeWine is talking to all his rabid fans.  :)

OC duty again Saturday, and it was surprisingly busy -- triple digits again, which is good.  We didn't get a lot of produce, so we pushed that; aside from the potatoes (from last week), it all went, and we moved on to the piles of cheese - sliced Swiss, cottage, sour -- which needs to go sooner or later.  Alas.  The weather was nice so we put out as many clothing racks and boxes as we could...we have given a way a LOT of stuff this month.  Heck, even the spare clothing room is pretty sparse.  This is good, as we all know it will come back, or at least more drives will be coming.

The news about the shooting in Buffalo completely saddened me; I mean, I always think of the end of the Holmes short story "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box," where Holmes asks about what is the end point of all this violence... today's Gospel. of course, was a useful counterpoint; to me, it challenges us to go out and challenge the hate we see and experience and fight it with the message of Christ.  Of course, it is easier in theory than in practice...

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/megan-fox/2022/05/12/the-first-rule-of-gay-club-is-you-do-not-talk-about-gay-club-groomer-teachers-plot-on-zoom-n1597324

I am beginning to see why some people think it is good idea to go after people like Ron DeSantis...  More seriously, as I like to say, public school teachers let parents into their classrooms, and now that the man behind the curtain has been revealed...