How Jesus would be executed today in Texas or Oklahoma. #GoodFriday
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In 1991 I went to mass at Corpus Christi monastery in the BX. An ancient priest with diminished vocal chords preached about taking up your electric chair and following Christ. Said “imagine wearing that as jewelry around your neck!
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Yes, that goes back a ways: “If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.”― Lenny Bruce
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I appreciate this memorial about my father by @ggrenwald above any I have read today--for his comprehensive review of his bio & history, for his attention to themes generally overlooked about his post-Vietnam life, but particularly for deep appreciation of his human qualities.🙏
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Here's my @RollingStone article on Daniel Ellsberg, the heroic Pentagon Papers leaker who died today at 92:
"We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong"
rollingstone.com/politics/polit
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