#NothingElseMatters
I admit that I am always morbidly fascinating at watching #HashtagWars play themselves out on social media in particular. Social media is the perfect echo chamber for would be loudmouths, hucksters, race-baiters, trolls, and various other parishioners of what I call the First Self-Righteous Church of America-Twitter Diocese. Whether it be Confederate flags, LGBTQWERTY rights, or Zoos shooting random Gorillas, there is a constant cacophony of of faux-moral outrage that flows forth like a fountain of bilge from a sewer main explosion. Some of the causes are perhaps worthy of discussion, while some of them are just ridiculous topics that really amount to a cosmic waste of the Divine time. As of this writing, there has been a dreadful spat of police shootings of civilians, righteous indignation, and retaliatory shootings of police in Dallas and elsewhere. The sad goings-on has led to some ghastly racial tensions and near riots in both the real world and virtual world. The news this week ...