April 2003
The Archives
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Finally, an alternative viewpoint in foreign policy
04.30.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Finally, an alternative viewpoint in foreign policyJohn Stewart of Daily Show fame stages a debate on foreign policy between two men with opposing ideas on how the US should conduct itself globally: George W. Bush 2003, the 43rd POTUS, and George W. Bush 2000, the Governor of Texas. Priceless.
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Will I still need my Nader fix?
04.30.03 | Permalink | 7 CommentsI like to think I had some small part in helping the Green Party establish an Atlanta presence. (Thank you. Thank you very much.) And, well, I voted for him too. (No hate mail please. I’m not in a swing state.) But I may go back to the Dems for this one because of one […]
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California city wants to ban parolees
04.29.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on California city wants to ban paroleesNow that you’ve paid your debt to society, you can no longer be a part of society. Go away. While they’re at it, why don’t they make them wear yellow arm bands so that keeping track of them will be that much easier?
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Persuasion
04.28.03 | Permalink | 9 CommentsLike Richard Rorty, I’m not convinced that logic and argument are finally persuasive. Rationality is like the foundation and framing of a house. There are as many different rationalities as there are ideological houses–even if personal ideologies in some neighborhoods all look the same. The measure of a good rationality is whether or not it […]
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Catholic child told about doggy heaven, doggy hell
04.25.03 | Permalink | 14 CommentsNORTHAMPTON, MA—Three days after burying his beloved labrador retriever, Daniel MacNeil, 9, was told about doggy heaven and hell by his fourth-grade teacher, Sister Doris Behnke. “Don’t cry, Daniel. I’m sure Shiner was a very good doggy,” Behnke told the mourning child Tuesday. “He’s probably in Doggy Heaven right now, running through its big green […]
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Religious humanists & public intellectuals after the fall of New Babel
04.25.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Religious humanists & public intellectuals after the fall of New BabelGregory Wolfe writes of post-Christian public intellectuals in the introduction to the essay collectionThe New Religious Humanists: Despite the harshness of our cultural climate, a new generation of religious humanists is making its presence known. Many of the most dynamic of these thinkers were born a generation after the ones that experienced the divisiveness of […]
