Nothing quite illustrates just how fragile our hold on life is than having a car smash against our bedroom wall just when we were going to sleep.
Or as our grandfather of blessed memory once said: Everything was fine and then it wasn’t.
So what lesson can we take from the event of Saturday night?
Only that life is precious and good and this is the one traffic accident that we can state categorically we weren’t at fault in any way.
Which for us is an achievement.
There is a nice little facebook page that has some councilman’s panties in a twist.
Everyone has a right to their own opinion and not a day goes by that someone opinion makes us angry.
But lord love a duck man you don’t put it on a council agenda.
Even if they are wrong and you got a note from the Almighty you don’t make it a public issue.
What’s next going after the guys who right on bathroom walls?
As incendiary rabble rousing facebook pages go White Pine & Ely Politics is about as pedestrian as a little old lady from Pasadena.
The folks who are members of it and the ones who are posting are simply taking advantage of the relatively new technology to voice their first amendments rights.
It is in that little thing called the Constitution, that piece of paper you swore to G0d to uphold and defend.
You can join the conversation or you cannot but are you seriously going to sick lawyers on these good people?
Get real and try for a small amount of shame.
Speaking of shame how about a little bit from our president?
We are old enough to remember one of the defenses of Watergate was that Kennedy and Johnson were just as bad.
To which we replied so what?
Bad is bad whether it came from a Democrat or a Republican. Bad was bad back then and it is just as bad now.
Sicking the IRS on groups and individuals, intimidating reporters, stealing their phone records is bad. It is also morally wrong and illegal.
What was that line?
There is no blue America, there is no red America, there is the United States of America.
We did get a thrill up our leg when we heard it too.
Too bad the guy who said now stinks to high heaven.