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There's a phrase I first encountered about ten years ago that I'm sure you've heard – – or, God forbid, said – – many times: "It's all good."
This is the kind of trite, meaningless, catch-all phrase that drives me bananas. As best as I can tell, it can have a few different meanings:
I mentioned at the end of last night's video my disappointment in the "demands" that Occupy Wall Street was making of the world. First off, I've never liked the word "demand" – – it sounds too……demanding. Even as a child, I didn't understand the concept of "Abortion On Demand" that some feminist groups insisted upon, but it sounded like something ugly and brutish.
More importantly, though, is the fact that this list is absurdly long and unrealistic. Let's take a look at these demands of theirs……my comments are in boldface:
Slope of Hope is rightly recognized as a bastion of the weird, and I had almost forgotten about the video below, which is a lifelong favorite of mine. It's as if I stepped outside in a hailstorm of awesome, and I have neither a jacket nor an umbrella. It's simply marvelous. Good night.
Late-breaking discovery! Lord in heaven, it gets better. I never knew God was this munificent.
