that I think are worth the powder to blow them to hell with. As often as not people prove themselves to be- frankly, useless as tits on a boar.

When you do get to know people who are worth knowing, people who are capable of being “Neighborly” in the sense that they are there for you when you need them, as opposed to merely minding their own business, you tend to value them more highly.

They are out there. Most of us probably have our ten righteous men.

And because they are out there and they do exist, Humanity is worth saving. Because even though the breeding of the nation ordinarily throws curs, sometimes you actually get a champion.

And because of THAT, it is worth doing every thing that can be done, no matter how small, and even no matter how distasteful it might be to you personally, so long as it makes it possible for the good to survive, and even thrive.

We’re not looking for a “Level playing field”. That abomination has been thrust upon us not as a way to increase “Fairness” but as a way to make it possible for the weak to succeed. No, we’re used to it all being an uphill battle, because the Heroism of Persistence is in all of us; we beat ourselves against the adversity day after day, and rub our stiff joints and plaster up our scars and laugh about it and go on. We want and need the struggle, because we know that the very adversity we struggle against is the forge in which tough spirits are hardened. We don’t go out seeking painful accidents, poverty, drought, death or destruction, but we get them, and we rail against them, and as often as not, we win. We often remember that pain not without some degree of fondness because it helped shape us.

Most people reading this understand. And a powerful lot reading it have a strong Faith- a true faith, not the huckster’s cheap “Beliefs”. And they know that this faith means that though we live in a modern day Sodom, we will not be destroyed, for there are far more than ten righteous men.