Let's Kill As Many As We Can Before Midnight

Hopefully there’s someone out there with the mental agility to answer my question; when, if ever, has Super Tuesday coincided with Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday)? Whatever the answer, it presents a certain kind of irony: participating in gluttony in anticipation of Lenten denial. As with so many things these days, I doubt that there’s a widespread understanding of how Mardi Gras came about, any more than it is understood that Halloween precedes All Saints Day. I would be, however, all for a moratorium from presidential politics between now and Easter, that we might have an opportunity to seriously reflect on where we have gone wrong in the past with an eye to correcting those mistakes in the future (the weight of my opinion was clearly demonstrated when the Super Bowl was not canceled last Sunday). We truly suffer from a lack of spiritual wisdom which causes us to get caught up in the hectic and frenetic pace of ignorance. How greatly we would benefit from taking the time to stop, to listen, to think, and to ponder the direction in which our country is headed. I daresay the candidates themselves would enjoy the same reward. And so, in the spirit of naïve idiocy that this author is known for, I suggest that we give up the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for Lent. Then, in the name of the Risen Christ, let bloodshed resume on March 23.