No, I’m not posting any of my spectacular sunset pictures. Not in this post, anyway.
| Most inhumanities start small, like the beginning of a tsunami, but then build, as they head toward inevitable and unstoppable destruction.
It is difficult to pinpoint the precise beginning of the cultural tsunami that has devalued human life. Did it begin with the subjugation of women? Did it begin with slavery? The Nazis made their contribution with the Holocaust and Josef Mengele’s hideous human experiments. Surely unrestricted abortion added to the growing list of inhumanities. Now we have the next wave. Randy Stroup is a 53-year-old Oregon man who has prostrate cancer, but no insurance to cover his medical treatment. The state pays for treatment in some cases, but it has denied help to Stroup. State officials have determined that chemotherapy would be too expensive and so they have offered him an alternative: death. |
Adds new meaning to what Governor Tom McCall famously said on national TV way back in the 70s:
“Come visit us again and again. But for heaven’s sake, don’t come here to live.”
Yup, we’re the Pacific Wonderland, alright.