Civil Commotion

So says Holy Man Greg Locke, of Global Vision Bible Church, of Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. Again, you’d do better to take your spouse, your kids, and your dog to a park on Sunday morning. Religion is bad for you.

Dawn and I visited the Outer Banks for a few days in early June, and many of the roads around the Hatteras lighthouse are permanently wet now; they don’t need the center of a hurricane, even a Category I, passing directly overhead. We’ve gone to the Outer Banks so many times over the past 30-years that it’s grown familiar, more like a visit to the old neighborhood than a vacation trip to someplace different — but our last visit left me wondering how much longer we’d be able to go. This is bad news.

And it’s not even a hot, humid, Annie Green Springs-fueled Friday night.

It’s going to be hard to conduct an election this year — and even harder to make it stick. I am not wrong about this: We are headed toward an epochal Constitutional confrontation, because Donald Trump is working for the other side.