The Living Room Times

Wishing damnation of others is tricky business. After all, what’s the criteria? Is it enough to retire, come back in a different, but fairly similar role, underperform, and then, seemingly, get your old job back from someone who worked really hard to get it? (Topical!) Or perhaps you must play in a gigantic stadium in America’s South/Southwest for an organization that has the audacity to call itself “America’s Team” without the slightest sense of irony? (Manly credentials! Purposely inflammatory football remarks!)

Thankfully, in these troubled times, I know there is at least one figure who I can turn to who can help me parse out who’s worthy of condemnation. And his name, of course, is Pat Robertson. And according to him, we should not look to television or to sports for evil. We should look to earthquake victims. Which, of course, makes an abundance of sense…maybe?

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