Another thing that has been fun is that I've gotten a bit Ghetto with my (still minimal) TV watching. The station of choice these days is "The CW" (Ooh! It sounds just like "The O.C."). I watch it for two reasons:
1st: I like watching "People's Court" with Judge Marilyn Milian - "The Hottest Judge on TV" so her show's intro says.

I like watching her because there is something comforting about seeing someone who has all the answers and is so sure of herself that she even shouts it. I admire people who can think through things quickly and clearly - I've never learned how to do this. I waiver and worry too much about reactions to my opinions. I like her cuz she's not crusty like Judge Judy. I think I take comfort in watching people open their mouths in disbelief when they realize that all their emotions and feelings don't have anything to do with justice. What they are looking for is mercy.
This reminds me of a quote by the late, great forgotten, Atheist turned Catholic apologist, G.K. Chesterton: "Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy." I wonder if it's true. I think the first part is. The part I keep coming back to is "most adults are wicked." Who of us wants to be defined in this way? Yet, these things go through my head cuz I'm not quite comfortable with the notion that we are all basically good. Given the opportunity, I think that I generally will act in a self-serving manner. I've had to be taught to be less so. Hopefully those of us with wicked streaks can find justice tempered by mercy.
At any rate, I didn't plan on writing all that.
2nd: Thank Allah for a good new show! I've gotten hooked on the CW's Monday night show "Aliens in America" about a Wisconsin family and the Pakistani exchange student who lives with them - they thought they were getting a European jock.

This show is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. Raja is quite possibly one of the most sincerly charming, most hysterical characters I've seen in a while. Here's a preview clip:
I was going to try and end this blog by drawing some comparison between these two shows, between Marilyn and Raja and their views of the world, but that would get a bit too much like a sermon. And while I enjoy a good sermon (having grown up listening to my father in the pulpit at church every Sunday.), I am not a preacher and not good at composing sermons.
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I haven't written any sermons myself, but I've been subjected to the process too many times to count.
How did you not tire of it all? Being the pastor's kid, I mean. It's all very tiresome to me and it's only the first year of what I can assume will be 40+ more.
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