Kennedy’s big issue in the 1960 election was the alleged “missile gap” between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Khrushchev, and everyone else in the Soviet government, knew it was just American politics, and they knew it was a lie. But so did Kennedy. He felt he had to lie to win, and he felt he…
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Christianity, the 2,000 year old dungheap of hallucination, self-delusion and cruelty, is incompatible with intellectual freedom and the scientific process. Since the future will be the result of the mingling of these, it cannot afford to blithely accept and accommodate Christianity. We need an active movement to fight it. American Atheists don’t cut it; they’re just a…
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Ah, that toxic confluence of religion and politics again! I’m always astonished at how stupid America is on the world stage. Specifically, if you’re the crappy actor in the play, you shouldn’t be surprised if you get the rotten tomatoes thrown at you. And America is the crappy actor. We like to pretend that our War for Independence was…
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I think this reinforces the validity of my premise, expostulated in the entry just prior to this one, Nuclear. Danger of Spent Fuel Outweighs Reactor Threat – NYTimes.com.
I would love to think that, in writing about the foolishness of nuclear power, I am preaching to the crowd.
It’s not like that, though.
Forget all those begats in the Bible. We have our own. World War 1 begat Hitler. World War 2 begat Eastern Europe as political subordinate to the USSR. China (1949) begat McCarthyism. The VietNam war begat a society that no longer trusted in government. The loss of trust in government begat Nixon’s personal apocalypse. The Nixon experience…
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Christie Misrepresents State Workers’ Contract | FactCheck.org. Chris Christie is misrepresenting the facts about New Jersey union contract negotiations under his predecessor. Christie has been battling state unions since becoming New Jersey governor in 2010. On CBS’ “Face the Nation” Feb. 27, he exaggerated the generosity of contract terms negotiated (and renegotiated) by Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine’s administration….
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News item: “Pending Home Sales Fall for Second Straight Month” — shouldn’t this be considered *good* news? Houses should not be seen as investments but as places to live. Nobody should have to pay a speculator’s ravenously inflated price for a home.
It is astonishing to watch history unfolding in North Africa. For the first time in my memory, Americans are paying attention to the people of the region and not their autocratic rulers.
I would seek that green moisture seeping from underroot tricklets but it was not the season yet though I didn’t know I am taken by my father to a green Japanese restaurant they eat American because I say I am not ready yet the perfect season comes I am of age I am ready and the trees I longed to study are blank have lost their meaning framed by roadways that are never finished