It feels like 104 degrees and it is 6:00 P:M:. Or as the old gentleman said to me last winter when it was about 10 degrees…’Where is that Global Warming that they are always telling us about?’

Hot weather tends to make us a bit crabby. This morning I swore an oath at my earbuds for not performing properly. They apologized and said that they would attempt to improve their performance once it got cooler.

I heard a presidential candidate say that if he is elected president his team is going to begin ‘slitting throats’ of government workers.

Heat makes us do strange and stranger things. It appears many of us are looking for a stand-in for Christ…not the Jesus of the Bible but our own personal definition of the Messiah. Someone who will destroy our enemies. A warrior who will defend with a blood oath our perception of America and Americans…and Faith. The Israelites in the desert commanded Aaron to fashion them a Golden Calf in the absence of Moses so they could worship the icon. They danced and made merry and indulged in orgies…understanding that they were the chosen ones and therefore could do no wrong.

I watched the former President of Harvard speak about her new book and her love of learning. Both she and her interviewer agreed that the mark of a learned person is humility that there is so much that they do not know. We could all use a dose of humility.