Monday, July 10, 2006

What an embarrassment

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Our utterly inarticulate president said this on June 14, 2006: I think—tide turning—see, as I remember—I was raised in the desert, but tides...
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We are so selfish.

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Look at this: Americans do not realize that the wealth we have gained since the middle of the twentieth century has slowly made us into a ve...
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Badge of honor

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God, I miss The West Wing : Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social ...

Shameful

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I couldn't agree more: The war in Iraq is shameful. Whether you're pro or con Bush, you've got to admit it: The guy lied. And he...

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Presidential secrecy

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Well, well, well. Looks like even the Republicans (some of them, at least) are getting upset about Bush's attachment to secrecy. Look at...
Sunday, July 09, 2006

Pure snark

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Why we are abdicating our freedom

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From The True Believer : People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-suff...

It breaks my heart.

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Frank Ford sent this cartoon.

So now we're like the Communists.

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Can you believe that the right wingers are now complaining that flying the flag at half-mast to honor the war dead is a protest against the ...
Saturday, July 08, 2006

Virulent nationalism

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I agree: And nationalism is given a special virulence when it is said to be blessed by Providence. Today we have a president, invading two c...

Germany prepares for Bush

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A wild boar? And these security costs are simply obscene: Officials in the eastern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are feveris...

Cheney and dictatorship

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Andrew Greeley I want to call your attention to an article entitled, "Cheney Really Wants US Dictator" by Andrew Greeley . Fr. G...
Friday, July 07, 2006

Amphibians threatened by global warming

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Every day it seems I read some news about global warming that tells of another horrible consequence of which I wasn't previously aware. ...

Friday cat blogging!

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Frank Ford sent me this picture of his cat, Petey .

Tutu on gays and lesbians

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I just came across this today: We reject [gays and lesbians], treat them as pariahs, and push them outside our church communities, and there...

"We have work to do."

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Not long ago the Presiding Bishop Elect of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori , was interviewed on the Diane Rehme show. Here...

Planet in crisis

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"If there were no life on Earth, it would be a giant arid desert, just like Mars and Venus" -- James Lovelock The BBC has publishe...
Thursday, July 06, 2006

About easy answers

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I wish the Republicans would ponder this one: Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers. -- H.L. Mencken

What a Democrat needs to say

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I want to call your attention to an article called, "Democrats, Here is Your Platform: 'It's Time for a Change!'" It ...