I’ve been thinking a lot lately about karma. I suppose that happens to a great many people as they grow older and begin to face their own mortality.

But it’s not my own karma that has me concerned. Oh, it’s not that I’ve lived a perfect life . . . far from it. But I figure that, on a sliding scale, I’ve done far less harm than any of those politicians, pedophiles, and other criminals and reprobates who make the daily headlines; so whatever punishment I have coming to me in the afterlife, I’ll handle it.

No, I’m thinking about those folks in the White House — in fact, the entire administration — as well as a lot of people in other seats of power throughout the world, and all of their sycophants who have “simply followed orders.”

Apparently, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also had such low-lifes in mind when he put these words into the mouth of his most famous protagonist, Sherlock Holmes:

“Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.”

– Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”

Now, that’s a mental image that gives me hope for eventual justice.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
2/12/26