“He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection, “Moral and Religious Aphorisms,” no. 25 (1825)
A friend of mine recently gave me a disturbing scenario: what if Iraq has descended into civil war because Bush and his neo-con puppetmasters want it that way? What if Bush's repeated failures to end the violence aren't failures at all, but rather the desired result? Consider: the continued violence…
Not after reading this article about pig-farming in Rolling Stone. This is the teaser at the top of the article: America's top pork producer churns out a sea of waste that has destroyed rivers, killed millions of fish and generated one of the largest fines in EPA history. Welcome to…
According to this article about Saddam's execution, "Iraq's death penalty was suspended by the U.S. military after it toppled Saddam in 2003, but the new Iraqi government reinstated it two years later, saying executions would deter criminals." Deter criminals? Since Iraq reinstated the death penalty in 2005, the murder rate in…
Their unnecessary, unjustified invasion of Iraq has now cost more American lives than did the (unrelated) 9/11 attack. (See http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061226/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq ).