Here are two disturbing items from the April 2006 "Harper's Index": 1. Amount by which Americans' total spending last year exceeded their earnings: $41,600,000,000. 2. Last year in which spending outstripped earnings: 1933. Then again, the citizens aren't doing anything different than their ruling political party. For some startling graphics…
Jimmy Carter on Fundamentalism: one can find it in religious circles and now "very overwhelmingly" in Washington. A fundamentalist believes, say, in religious circles, that I am close to God. Everything that I believe is absolutely right. Anyone who disagrees with me, in any case, is inherently wrong and therefore,…
ABSOLUTELY NOT, according to the administration. At least that is what we've heard so far. Instead, we've heard various other purported reasons, such as the following: Because Saddam Hussein has shown contempt for the United Nations and for his deceptions and cruelties. Because Iraq has failed to co-operate with United…
Young rocks impersonating old rocks. My favorite program was the hike to the base of the falls. Layers of rock are like chapters in a history book and this canyon, carved so deeply, told an ancient story. Standing at the bottom, calling out over the roar of the falls, I…
In the movie version of the H.G. Wells story, "The Time Machine," the story ends with the Time Traveler disappearing into earth's distant future, where the human species is not only living a primitive Stone Age existence, but is engaged in a life-and-death struggle against a violent competing species. However,…