We always hear that the religious Right is a great demon bent on lying and destroying our world, but what about the equally fanatic religious Left, that shapeless army of Buddhists, Christians, and observant Atheists who make up their own reality from moment to moment? One of their house organs is Sojourners Magazine, the source [...]
What’s the more significant recent election, France’s rejection of the European constitution, or Beirut’s election of Saad Hariri and his slate to lead the new democratic government?
France gets more play, but I’d go with Lebanon, one of the immediate consequences of the Bush policies in the Middle East. Besides, countries like Lebanon are [...]
Mark Felt, age 91, says he was Deep Throat:
SANTA ROSA, Calif. – A former FBI official claims he was “Deep Throat,” the long-anonymous source who leaked secrets about President Nixon’s Watergate coverup to The Washington Post, his family said Tuesday.
I’ve got no reason to doubt him, but I’d like to hear it from Woodward.
Here’s the [...]
At least one monkey in India is a good Hindu:
Balasore (Orissa), May 25 : Aping Hindu rituals to a T, a monkey appeared at an Orissa temple, prayed for an hour folding its hands in the traditional sign of respect, took prasad, put vermilion on its forehead – and then fled.
Maybe this is what [...]
The San Jose Mercury News asks:
Imagine a religion where a goddess is chief of all the elves that wander the Earth and where people play in cow dung and urine during holy festivals.
According to California public school textbooks, that’s Hinduism.
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For a guy who claims that he’s not a “celebrity chef”, Gordon Ramsay sure is on TV a lot. Perhaps the boy can really cook, but that’s not his only talent – self-promotion is really up there.
What is it about these crabby Brits on TV? There was that woman on The Weakest Link, and Simon [...]
After this blow he might just hang up his spurs, poor devil.
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Matt Welch is a good guy, even if he did publish his Deadwood Democrats thing on the evil Salon.com. Check out what he has to say about the Dems’ desperate need to reinvent themselves as something other than the national nags:
And it’s the Democrats who are in desperate need of re-branding.
What to do? “The West [...]
the Vdare Blog offers a simple and cogent explanation for recent Republican victories:
The key reason why some states vote Republican, I’ve found, can be summed up in the three-word phrase:
Affordable Family Formation.
In parts of the country where it is economical to buy a house with a yard in a neighborhood with a decent public school, [...]
Apropos the discussion we’ve been having for the last couple of days about helping the poor, David Brooks notes that you can have a war on poverty or a culture war, but you can’t have both without destroying an important alliance:
…That is to say, liberals and conservatives can go on bashing each other for being [...]
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