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Incoming! Another barrage of thoughts and prayers…

Here in Texas, we live under a continuing rain of thoughts and prayers, and what is being broadcast on Fake News? Some stupid hurricane.

Here under the bombardment, it’s hard not to notice that there are considerably more prayers than thoughts.

The whole mass shooting issue can be reduced to two aphorisms, one originating with the National Rifle Association and the other with one of several hippie cartoon characters that dispensed timeless wisdom along with the laughs. These characters are virtually unknown outside those of us who immersed ourselves in sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll and therefore were doomed to lives outside the American Dream.

We would have no careers; only a series of gigs.

We would have no two story house with a white picket fence; only our corner of a filthy crash pad where we would of necessity have sex in front of other people.

We would have no marriages; only relationships that, at most, qualified as serial monogamy.

We would have no children; when birth control failure coincided with insufficient funds for an abortion, the child would be put off on our parents or on the government.

We would have no guns; when the caravans of brown people surged over our borders and…