Garrison Keillor has written a Salon.com article titled "The chosen president: For the Current Occupant, it's enough to believe that he's been ordained by God. What does it matter what anyone else thinks?" Here's an excerpt: Clearly the Current Occupant sees himself as a chosen president, though his theology is…
To see why Twinkies are cheap and fresh produce is expensive,"you need look no farther than the farm bill," according to this article in the New York Times: This resolutely unglamorous and head-hurtingly complicated piece of legislation, which comes around roughly every five years and is about to do so…
Marty Kaplan describes the symptoms and gives a name to "the very real nausea that culture (to use a kind word for it) can cause": Attention Sickness. First the BIG THING was ANNA NICOLE. Then it was WAR FUNDING. Then it was SANJAYA, and vote-for-the-worst sadism. Then it was CANCER, and…
Summary: A scathing, informative chronicle of the Bush administration's failures in Iraq, yet one that speaks with compelling plausibility of all the missed opportunities to turn things around. Former U.S. diplomat and ambassador Peter Galbraith has been deeply and personally involved with the affairs of Iraq for over twenty years.…
A Jesuit college in St. Louis just won a Missouri Supreme Court case allowing them to get public money, $8 million of it, for their college. Not being one that believes public money should be spent in support of religion, I was aghast. "How could that possibly happen?" you might say. The answer…