The counter on the left side of the blog says less than two weeks until the midterm elections. The netroots pundits are on the road headed to various places for the countdown. The email folder is filling up with last minute requests for more money. And my heart is in my stomach. In 2004, I […]
Why There Almost Certainly Is No God America, founded in secularism as a beacon of eighteenth century enlightenment, is becoming the victim of religious politics, a circumstance that would have horrified the Founding Fathers. The political ascendancy today values embryonic cells over adult people. It obsesses about gay marriage, ahead of genuinely important issues that […]
A year and a half ago, I started writing a blog , at first at my daughter’s urging, but then on my own. She complained about my frequent political posts [boring]. So last Christmas, she gave me this one to get the political stuff isolated, and now it’s the only one I write on. It’s […]
Not much mentioned by the political blogs, an Amish community in Pennsylvania was invaded by a disturbed man who senslessly executed school children, then himself. Amish schoolgirl hoped to spare others Two of the survivors of the shooting told their parents that 13-year-old Marian Fisher, one of the slain girls, asked to be shot first, […]
The peacefulness of the Martian desert is a stark contrast to the tumultuous desert of Iraq and the painful miscarriage of justice unfolding on the floor of our Houses of Congress. May the heavens forgive us…
Countdown Program showing the Press Conference in which Bush sounds like a lunatic
Early memories are hard to piece together – more like snapshots than movies. I was four. People were outside, hitting pans. I was frightened. Mom said, "The war is over!" I remained scared. I didn’t know wars got over. I guess I just thought they just were. I was nine. The newsreel was about General […]
While not personally a member of the "faith" community, I’ve been uncomfortable with it’s absence in the American dialogue. It’s been essentially out of the loop, or at least out of my loop, since the Religious Right turned it into a political lobby and hate group. I’ve wondered why right-thinking Christians have put up with […]