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an epidemic?

Home Values of Evangelical Leaders in Colorado Springs A recent public records search* uncovered the home values of some of the Cardinals of the Evangelical Vatican. According to Jesus ("Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the […]

a lot of talk about 2008…

Yesterday, Kennedy was talking about John Kerry in 2008. Newt Gingrich was prattling on about 2008 too. I’m thinking that 2008 isn’t where we need to be focusing right now. I propose that the Presidential election of 2000 remains our highest priority. Until we parse out the gigantic mistake we made back then, we may […]

Frodo and Sam…

So, TNTHD had the Lord of the Rings Trilogy on today – a real undertaking, but well worth the investment. Tolkein started it while he was in the trenches during World War I, and the metaphorical connections are obvious throughout the film version. He later said he began creating his fantasy world of Middle Earth […]

more on Dr. Kelly…

Thanks to reader Dawn, a Dr. Kelly afficionado, who responded to my post about Carne Ross and Dr. David Kelly as follows: "Of course the deceit was worked “in tandem”. I remember deducing that the plan was likely hatched in Feb 02, when “Bliar” was at the Crawford ranch. M. look at the timeline.. It […]

person of the year…

( life )

Update: Well, my wife thinks it’s a cop out and Russell Shaw says "What a Bunch Of Hooey!" But I like it because I think it’s true. I’d have picked "Us," but I’m not going to quibble over singular versus plural. You write on the Internet. You look up things on the Internet. You elected […]

the other whistle…

Diplomat’s suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war The Government’s case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. A devastating attack on Mr Blair’s justification for military action by Carne Ross, Britain’s […]

the principle of multiple determination…

In the earlier days of Psychoanalysis, a Viennese Analyst, Robert Waelder, expanded on Freud’s idea of overdetermination with his principle of multiple determination. What both of them were getting at was that any given psychological act shouldn’t be viewed as having "a cause," but rather "many causes." Erik Erickson, in a paper about Freud’s book […]

Niger, Niger, Niger…

Uranium from Africa and the Aluminum Tubes – Some Observations on the Relevant Articles by Murray Waas (Part 3) This is third part of a short series (Part 1, Part 2) discussing Murray Waas’s articles in National Journal (from early this year) on the uranium/Nigergate/Plamegate matter and the aluminum tubes issue. In Part 1, I […]

a Hollywood remake…

Back in 2002, when the Bush Administration began to talk of War in Iraq [Iraq? Did I hear that right?], I recall being confused. When the campaign wound up [Bush, Cheney, Rice, the New York Times], I really didn’t know exactly what to think. I got in trouble with my high school classmates on an […]

1 monotonous boring old man…

  I hate to be so monotonous about a single topic, but Vice President Dick Cheney has earned our special attention. It’s fine with me if his daughter and her Lesbian partner want to have a baby. I hope Mr. Cheney sticks with her. But I’d be pleased as punch if he’d retire and go […]