We can hope, can’t we? Yes we can. For all her crazy talk, Christine O’Donnell has finally managed to talk her way into becoming a nominee for senator in Delaware, running as a member of the Republican Party. Despite canceling appearances on the teevee talking head circuit this morning, early observations are that she can talk the talk; as for …
Intractable international problems continually and increasingly reveal how ineffective— and unethical— it is for any single nation, like the United States, to assume the mantle of “World Sheriff.”
A large swath of the American public— led by ratings-mad media mavens and immoral politicians like Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin— has declared all-out war on “the Other”. . .
Mud thou art, and to mud shall thou return. Christopher Hitchens is an atheist dogmatist. For all his witty brilliance, he hasn’t figured out that only an unqualified reality— an absolute— could dare to be as consistently dogmatic as he is. And he certainly isn’t an absolute reality. Yes, he can intellectually deny God— and still be morally good, loyal, …
Joe Kieyoomia was a young Navajo soldier from New Mexico. In April of 1942, he was captured by the Japanese when the Allied forces surrendered the Philippines. . .
Sharron Angle, Michele Bachmann, and Sarah Palin are the reigning supremely stupid. Unless you have been on another planet, you already know we are in one of our nation’s— even the world’s— most critical transitional periods. And every day now, we learn more about many of our so-called “leaders,” as they increasingly expose themselves as incompetent, corrupt, and unqualified to …
“And the patch of sky was no bigger than a grain of sand held out at arm’s length.”
