Theocracy Watch
Is Scarborough honestly saying that Jesus Christ had a position in the last presidential election, that only Republican voters were true Christians?
Read moreMonth: April 2005
The Pope's Gay Bashing
What’s maddening about this pope’s signature gay bashing is this: When the pope ? the dead one, the next one, the one after that ? says something stupid about homosexuality, straight folks take it to heart.
Read moreThe Party of Pass The Buck
Today’s news – “Martinez aide wrote memo on Schiavo” – is really yesterday’s news with Mel. ‘Ole Mel keeps getting into trouble, yet skates by by blaming others. Mel, is he a poor, innocent dupe, an empty suit, or both?
Read more$10 Million for That?
Well, the 601 page summary of the $10 million 14-month study on the intelligence failures surrounding Iraq is now published. Wow, what a bonanza of information. For our $10 million, we find out that the data on arms in Iraq was flawed. We know that. When we got over there, we didn’t find any.
Read moreLurching Towards Fascism
“What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security…”.
Read moreThe Death of John Paul
Pope John Paul II has died. I’m not Catholic (nor am I one of the many ?former/recovering? Catholics), and I don’t have particularly strong feelings about this particular pope. But seeing the crowd gathered in St Peters Square has caused me to develop some thoughts on the history of the church and John Paul’s place in it.
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