Lay Lines by Carol Lay for November 07, 2022

They think like the MAFIA and killing is the all-purpose problem solver.

The only reason there is so much hate in the world is that there are so many people in the world.

There are too many different kinds of religions around the world to lump them all together for mass condemnation.

Typical republican.

An wise person once said love makes the world go around. Sadly the opposite is true, hate makes the world go around too.

Love this style, so U.P.A. ♡. So dynamic.

Don’t forget the anonymous death threats, both email and phone — especially toward election workers and school board candidates.

Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore wrote a wonderful story about what happens to a world where conscience and empathy disappear. It’s called “The Two Fisted Engine.” Written in the 1950s, it will seem eerily prescient when you read it.

And then of course there’s Flannery O’Connor’s character in “A Good Man Is Hard To Find”:

“She would have been a good woman,” The Misfit said, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”