Thursday, October 19, 2006

History Illustrated

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Thomas Jefferson: First Inaugural Address About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and v...

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

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From the BBC , via the Mad Priest : Nearly a third of people worldwide back the use of torture in prisons in some circumstances, a BBC surv...

Failing Nobly

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Thinking about politics made me think about "Clean Gene" Eugene McCarthy, and the campaign of 1968, one I remember only vaguely. I...
Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Finally! A Reason to Celebrate!

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Once again, unable to improve on perfection: what the Mad Priest said . Let all the people rejoice!

Why I don't read Noam Chomsky

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Note to rmj : this is not an argument for the full-scale politicization of religion. Rather, it's a reminder that when citizens - religi...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Just a brief comment on power

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What? Hallowe'en is coming! And the new jack o'lanterns haven't been carved yet. Until then, you'll have to make do with ...

Knowledge is power

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But therein lies the rub - that in Iraq today, insecurity has made it almost inhumanly difficult to conduct proper research on the harms and...
Monday, October 16, 2006

Be Afraid. Be very afraid.

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Paying attention to the NSA wiretapping matter (which is still unresolved), we have this little tidbit , from the conviction of Lynne Stewar...

Among School Children

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The problem for Salman Rushdie , which is actually not tolerance of ideas or people, but this: Do ideas make people; or do people make ideas...
Sunday, October 15, 2006

The 2 X 4 of God

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So I start this rather overly righteous screed (I know when I'm going over the top, but hey, it's a blog! If you can't embarass...

If wishes were horses

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beggars would ride. The proverb raises a question: is George W. Bush a beggar , wishing for a horse? President Bush finds the world around h...
Thursday, October 12, 2006

In response to Phila's point

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made below (and an exuse to bring that conversation back to the top of the thread), I just came across this quote from Gustavo Gutierrez (Gu...

Regarding the Dead

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Les Roberts has what is truly the last word on the Johns Hopkins/Lancet study of deaths in Iraq. He notes that their report (he is a co-aut...
Wednesday, October 11, 2006

WAR! Or a reasonable fascimile thereof.

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Well, this is very interesting: American al Qaeda spokesman Adam Yahiye Gadahn is to face treason charges, federal sources told CNN on Wedn...

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

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Picking up on part of this , we have this : One party has controlled the White House, Senate and House for most of the past six years. Why h...

"Paranoia strikes deep"

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It is a notorious fact that the Monarchs of Europe and the Pope of Rome are at this very moment plotting our destruction and threatening the...
Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Sparkly Lights

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What the Mad Priest said .

What have you seen, my blue-eyed son?

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I'm going to find a way to make this picture a permanent part of the blog. Well, at least for awhile. It says way too many things on way...
Monday, October 09, 2006

Morning Reading

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Jurassicpork gives us Paul Krugman's latest column. . Paranoia strikes deep, indeed. And here is the Hofstadter essay Krugman refers t...
Sunday, October 08, 2006

Please adjust your metrics accordingly

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More than 20,000 U.S. troops have been wounded in combat in the Iraq war, and about half have returned to duty. While much media reporting h...