The Lair of the Emerald Serpent

It is now a week since the Easter Sunday massacre in Sri Lanka and just over a month since the murders in the mosques at Christchurch. And now we hear about another shooting in a synagogue in California. This guttersnipe was apparently inspired by the shooter in Christchurch and had grand plans to be a copy cat with a manifesto and all. Luckily he failed miserably but that is still no consolation to those whom he did manage to kill or injure.

I just cannot begin to understand the twisted mindset of those killers who are convinced that killing other worshippers is their "Mission from God" but it does bring to mind one of the many wonderful stories of Anthony De Mello

However if I were an ant, I would sue him for defamation since no 6 legged creature could ever be so petty and stupid. That's the specialty of the 2 legged creatures who vainly call themselves 'homo sapiens'


THE STING

A saint was once given the gift of speaking the language of the ants. He approached
one, who seemed the scholarly type, and asked, “What is the Almighty like? Is he in any
way similar to the ant? ”

Said the scholar, “The Almighty? Certainly not! We ants, you see, have only one sting.
But the Almighty, he has two”

Suggested post script:

When asked what heaven was like, the ant-scholar solemnly replied, “There we shall
be just like Him, having two stings each, only smaller ones.”

A bitter controversy rages among religious schools of thought as to where exactly the
second sting will be located in the heavenly body of the ant.

Plus ca change.....

A quick tweek of the Time Turner takes us back to 1999. Now more is the pity that there is no "Five minutes of fame" limit on this particular model.



The grand plans to do a proper post got well and truly scuttled when yet again the evil gremlins are trashing the serpent portkeys to Cyberia. After 50 minutes spent trying just to get to gmail and nothing to show for the efforts but constant spinning beachballs, time outs and 404 errors, the serpent brain is well and truly fried and completely incapable of stringing a coherent sentence together.
It's not the first time this has happened and at this rate a rather extended exile from Cyberia is looking increasingly attractive.

Such a bummer since there's so much juicy gossip in Oz where our own army of orange headed Trump wannabees are crawling out of the woodwork.