According to this article from the Boston Globe, Christianity is fading in Western Europe: Nearly 99 percent of Christmas cards sold in Great Britain contain no religious message or imagery. Traditional pictures such as angels blowing trumpets over a stable, Jesus in his manger, the shepherds and three wise men…
A lot has happened since Bush uttered those inopportune words: nearly 3,000 American troups are dead for no good reason; more than $300 billion has been wasted, with several times that amount expected to be wasted in the future; Democrats are in; Rumsfeld is out; Bush's approval rating has slipped…
According to this salon.com post by Bill Maher, the worst menace isn't Mark Foley. Not by a long shot. Focus, instead on legions of corporate and government predators. Though this was written in October 2006, I didn't notice it until today. As always, Maher doesn't pull any punches: [Foley] was…
It makes me wonder whether anyone is buything this line of bull anymore. I wonder how the families of the soldiers killed in Iraq are reacting to this lie these days. Maybe it gives some of them solace, because the alternative would be so incredibly crushing. My thoughts? Good-bye. Good riddance.
Vanity Fair has published an extraordinary article including interviews with many architects of America's foreign policy. What do they think now that Iraq has been such a miserable failure? Varying degrees of regret can be detected in the people interviewed, but little remose, except from Kenneth Adelman: Fearing that worse…