Louis Roney: Original sin

• Thinking about sin is hardly a good hobby. And original sin is not only often pointless but confusing. Sinning itself may not be all that bad. I am not sure because I’ve never indulged in it. However, the whole big church industry is well funded by people who probably think they have sinned and are looking for another organization to help them square things with whoever the big-sin-handler-in-the-sky is. Most sins, it seems to me, do not change human history, even though they lure plenty of hefty investments in an attempt to influence gamblers and nifty blondes.

Knowing nothing myself about sin, I’m surely not going to try to get you involved in it — though there are some things about you that irk the hell out of me. Correcting somebody else’s’ sins is, of course, routine.

Correcting your own sins is another matter and another kind of “applied morality” that may leave some bitter after-taste. To tell you the truth, I advise against sin-self-correction. This procedure is linked to some bad complexes — one of them is even called by the name “guilt” — so you see it is self-defeating, and it’s mostly practiced by errant husbands, flirting wives, and mischievous little boys. Someone once said, “God must love sinners, he made so many of them.” Don’t fool yourself about original sin — I can tell you that it is damn difficult to be original.

After all a great faction of the human race is plotting away at sin all the time.

• Let me point out to readers that no sooner had I decided to write about sin, I ran out of subject matter. That situation occurs with a guy like me who stopped misbehaving after throwing an eraser at a boy in fourth grade.

• Anyone who lives in Maine, obviously is quite insane.

• We would trade a healthy shekel to know how Donald Trump is spending his time between Nov. 8, and Jan. 20. I might well have had a young male associate of mine line up the candidates in a row in order of their pulchritude. Who would want to sit through a long cold Washington winter while starring at an office full of sourpusses?

Actually news is on the air and in SOME newspapers — if one bothers…

• Urban definition of a politician: “Someone who will say anything to anybody at any time to get exactly what they want.” Lawyer: See "politician" and add: “With a total lack of ethics and/or remorse for their actions.” Judge: See "lawyer" and add: “With a lousy attitude.” Client: “a guy who’s willing to pay the above and then go out and sin publicly.”

• My better half, who understands politics far better than this simple Florida cracker, tells me that, if nothing else, we have at least gotten rid of “the Clinton crowd” and have succeeded in preserving the sacrosanctity of our Constitution. All of us, one must assume, want what is the very best for our country, but our possible paths ahead are still varied and unpredictable.

• Donald Trump, as he said he would, has stunned many of his advisories by doing just what he said he would do i.e. conferring confidentially with, and seeking advice, from his “enemies.” We doubt that these “enemies” are naive enough to trust Trumps gratuitous handouts, but he is doing something most people don’t do — he’s listening, and it’s a good idea!