CNN.com: “U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has submitted his resignation to President Bush, a senior administration official told CNN. In addition to Powell, sources said the White House today also will announce the resignations of Education Secretary Rod Paige, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham and Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman.” I once heard a commentator say that Powell was the best of the bunch, and he’s a hired thug. Still, I am sad to see him go – he was perhaps…
On this day, November 15, 1969, between 250,000-500,000 demonstrated against the Vietnam War (ahhhh, “conflict”) in Washington, D.C. Since we are in the middle of an even less justifiable war, I thought it might be fitting to meditate on a few related quotations. Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America–not on the battlefields of Vietnam. –Marshall McLuhan, 1975 (That’s why we don’t see Iraq) Vietnam…
Umberto Eco, 1995“Eternal Fascism:Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt”New York Review of Books, 22 June 1995, pp.12-15. Excerpted in Utne Reader, November-December 1995, pp. 57-59. For the full article, consult the New York Review of Books, purchase the full article online; or purchase Eco’s new collection of essays: Five Moral Pieces. Excerpt:In spite of some fuzziness regarding the difference between various historical forms of fascism, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical…
The White House and Congress: Where is The Money? Sign the petition! Here is the text – click on the link above to sign it. More than $1.1 trillion of federal government money is missing. Our government leaders say they will not account for it. However finding this money could solve all of our federal, state and local budget crises. Where is the Money? The Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of the Inspector General has reported that HUD…
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods, or no God. – Thomas Jefferson Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb–the most active and dynamic of all? ~ Mary Daly Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller We have made up a God in our image. Because we are angry and judgmental, we have projected those characteristics onto Him….
Alberto Gonzales: A Record of Injustice – Center for American Progress Alberto Gonzoles, who is most likely going to be Ashcroft’s replacement despite tough questions from Democrats in the confirmation hearings, is another disaster for our country. This man has a long history with Bush. This link provides the most concise presentation of the evidence against him and includes details about his history of corruption and his horrible manipulation of the system of law and corporate reality in America. I…