Aug 30 2009
I’m almost finished with Charles Pierce’s “Idiot America — How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free” (Doubleday, June 2009). Just read the chapter on the 9-11 fiasco and the “sexing up” of the Iraq war and I’m so angry right right now that I feel compelled to share the following links …
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Aug 28 2009
…that the right wing of this country is certifiably, well, certifiable… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0OUXkZO8vE Still not convinced? Keep watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgSBumvA11M
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Aug 12 2009
An open letter to our suddenly-in-the-spotlight (and loving every minute of it) blue dog democrats: On the subject of healthcare reform, where exactly do you stand? We now know what you’re against, but what are you for? And just who is informing your finger-in-the-wind, myopic views on the matter? The insurance and pharmaceutical giants who fight …
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Jun 04 2009
Friends, I’ve been on this soapbox for many years now, but if you still insist that the hard-core beliefs of the fringes of American Christianity have no bearing on events on the other side of this space-traveling mudball, then read this interesting bit: http://blog.sojo.net/2009/06/03/the-day-i-got-left-behind/
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Apr 27 2009
For the sake of argument, let’s suppose torture works… For the sake of argument, let’s also suppose that 9/11 was inevitable. Let’s suppose that it wasn’t a circus of errors and missed opportunities and hot pursuits that were allowed to grow cold. Let’s suppose that the CIA and the FBI were a model of harmonious …
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Mar 14 2009
My pastor John, methinks, probably wonders if I too often connect disparate ideas and events by the thinnest of threads. There is an old tradition in the Middle East regarding when the feasts of Ramadan begin and end; as long as there is enough daylight to discern between a black and white thread, fasting must continue. Once they …
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Feb 28 2009
Having just finished a book that extols the virtue of harmonizing right-wing elements of Protestant and Roman Catholic Christianity (see http://tinyurl.com/b3levz and http://tinyurl.com/ahashg), I found the following Fisk commentary on papal perspective most interesting. And more than a bit alarming… http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fiskrsquos-world-examine-the-popes-words-and-theres-only-one-thing-to-conclude-1634266.html and/or ttp://tinyurl.com/avwuz3 Fisk’s last paragraph And what do I make of all this? Well, I don’t think the …
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