We are, says Herschel Walker, Republican Party candidate for Senate from Georgia, "the greatest country in the United States." Mr. Walker, it seems as that quote demonstrates, may have played almost as much football without a helmet as he has had sex without prophylactics.
Having driven through Georgia in early July and marveled at the "Repent Jesus is Coming!" billboards lining the interstate, I think The Lord will be spending some extra time at Herschel's house before the last trumpet blast is sounded.
As a nation, we are painfully self-absorbed, and with my seven decades here as my frame of reference woefully uninformed and nearly criminally disinterested about the rest of the world.
This weekend news story should resonate with us more than it has or will.
When I was a kid, we were the country every other nation aspired to be. What happened?
-bill kenny
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