What caught my eye this morning, in no particular order… A majority of members of Iraq’s parliament have signed a draft bill that would require a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. soldiers from Iraq and freeze current troop levels. Support our Oops The cost of postage stamps will go up again Monday – 41 cents for a first-class letter. Over the past four years, between 100,000 and 300,000 barrels a day (about $5-15 million daily) of Iraq’s oil production…
Perhaps it was the dancing at the wedding. Perhaps it was the new shoes. Or maybe it was just an extension of that slight crick I had in my neck when I woke up Sunday. Whatever the cause, I’ve been experiencing some pretty serious back pain for the last couple of days. Somewhere between the bottom of my neck and the blades of my shoulders, something is terribly wrong. I went to the University clinic yesterday to find out what….
I have something to say about the recent Supreme Court decision that upheld the ban on late-term abortions, whether or not the pregnancy endangers the woman’s life. I’m a pragmatic contextual ethicist with a spiritual sensibility, and I cannot be silent. I cannot pretend that I don’t understand the next step in this game. If you stop for a moment to think about it, what will be required next is blindingly obvious. A dead woman. All you vultures will sit…
Peace be in you. Peace be through you. I feel a great urge for peace today. I am thinking about some of the wise and kind people that I have met, and the way I felt when I was near them. There are people of the book(s). There are people of people, so to speak. There are people of the cosmos. Each have their strengths and blind spots, but they share some things in common. Such people seem to leave…
Ok, Don Imus was in the wrong, like Limbaugh with his feminazis, and Ann Coulter with whatever s/he has said this week, and all the other blowhards who are regularly hateful – and with more ooomph behind it. Actually I think the guy was trying to be “cool” and he was the wrong guy, talking about the wrong women, at the exact wrong time. Of course, he has said a lot of nasty things in the past, and had even…
I can’t get out this afternoon to pick up a copy of the New York Times. I get an email from a friend, saying that I just have to read Paul Krugman’s column. At the site, there is this teaser: OP-ED COLUMNIST For God’s Sake By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: April 13, 2007 The infiltration of the federal government by large numbers of people seeking to impose a religious agenda is one of the most important stories of the last six…