When I was a boy, I believed the orangish, bulbous areas on some pine tree limbs was caused by snakes biting the pine trees. I don't recall why I thought that or why, for that matter, I even thought at all about misshaped pine tree limbs. At some point, I should have asked the question: Why would a snake bite a pine tree? But, I'm pretty sure I never did. I was probably busy smoking a stick or putting cherry bombs under tin cans.
If boys ruled the world, we'd be worshipping ladies' undergarmints. Boys are stupid that way, and every other way you can possibly imagine. I should believe in God just because I lived long enough to reach puberty. Certainly, something greater than me was protecting me from me during those times Mom wasn't there and Mischief was.
I loved my boyhood, but I also love referring to it in the past tense. The only thing that breaks my heart is having to refer to my mother, father and all the wonderful adults that touched my life in the past tense. Growing up is life's consolation for the loss of loved ones.
What is the consolation for progressives in ageing? They don't grow up. They continue to believe snakes bite pine trees or its equivalence: man makes climate disruption. If Obama and the UN saw they could control populations by promoting the belief that snakes bite pine trees, you grown-ups could be sure that the evidence that snakes have fangs and pines have misshapen limbs would be ample evidence to convince most progressives.
Perhaps, the consolation for progressives in ageing is retaining a father and mother figure, found most often in their political leaders. If so, it's a terrible consolation due to the character and abilities of their leaders.
In her new memoir Hard Choices, Hillary Clinton states that president Obama gave the order to do whatever was necessary to protect the Americans under attack in Benghazi. “When Americans are under fire, that is not an order the Commander in Chief has to give twice,” she wrote.
What adult would believe such a preposterous assertion? On the night Ambassador Stephens and three other Americans died, there wasn't a "smidgen" of military assistance given. If Obama had actually given such an order, he should have come out days later saying he was mad as hell to find out that his generals disobeyed his order after reading in the paper that no rescue mission was attempted. Only in a child's mind could Hillary Clinton's statements be believed.
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