Majoring In Minors • 02.15.08
The powerful passionate preacher boomed, “We are majoring in minors! I was perhaps 12 years old, but the force of his exhortation still inhabits a drawer in my sacred tool kit. Majoring in minors. What a compact incisive commentary for the happenings brushed on the Congressional canvass this week.
On Wednesday the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee spent 5 hours grilling a Hall of Fame caliber baseball pitcher and his trainer about 3 alleged shots of illegal substances injected into his butt.
Meanwhile Senator Arlen Specter the ranking Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee spent an hour and a half of moral fortitude with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell discussing the New England Patriots and the league’s decision to destroy tapes and notes turned over by the Patriots in an investigation that has become known as “Spygate.”
All the while in small independent theaters, that minor league reality show called life on planet earth features our President and Vice President admitting and shamelessly defending torture, the Senate approving unconstitutional wiretapping with a side of immunity for telecom companies, and the announcement of death penalty – no due process – military tribunal trials for alleged 9-11 conspirators.
The passionate preacher’s warning reverberates, “Majoring in minors!”
Old School Prophet Amos is a reliable educational advisor for our major in the in the college of higher ethics. “Seek good and not evil, that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you just as you say he is. Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the courts…let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like and ever flowing stream.” (Amos 5:14,15,24)
Be of good courage bearers of the light. Keep shining and sounding the light. Despot’s deeds ultimately get them expelled. Grandstanders who major in minors eventually flunk out.
The poetic truth intersected by William Channing Gannett will persevere and be granted the Everlasting Diploma.
“It sounds along the ages, soul answering to soul; It kindles on the pages of every Bible scroll; The psalmist heard and sang it, from martyr lips it broke, and prophet tongues outrang it till sleeping nations woke.”
