Coulter … Sigh … Again
She does it again - humor? Vaudeville? Bad joke? A glimpse into the dark vacuum of where her "soul" is supposed to be? Probably a bit of all. Andrew Sullivan's unique insight - gay, conservative and in attendance when she made the guffaw - is appreciated. From his most recent (and hopefully, mercifully, the last) post: Her defense, however, is that she was making a joke, not speaking a slur. Her logic suggests that the two are mutually exclusive. They're not. And when you unpack Coulter's joke, you see she does both. Her joke was that the world is so absurd that someone like Isaiah Washington is forced to go into rehab for calling someone ...Albuquerque - March 2007
This week's travel could have been a little less adventurous, what with the severe storms and the collusion of the airlines to fly into them, regardless of passenger comfort! Oh, and the mentally disturbed man who I shared a seat with for 4 hours and who explained in detail about his job as a steel working contractor but his much more interesting work (on his own time of course) where he was working on a theory of everything for physics which would, much to Peter Woit's dismay no doubt, incorporate super-string theory. Fair enough I say (after all Einstein was a patent clerk before he discovered general relativity); but then my seat companion quickly adds on that the ...Foundations Matter
While starting Chris Hedges American Fascists: the Christian Right and the War On America, I was moved by the following quote, which comes as he characterizes the foundation of his faith, provided him by his father, a Presbyterian lay-pastor: We were taught that those who claimed to speak for God, the self-appointed prophets who promised the Kingdom of God on earth, were dangerous. We had no ability to understand God's will. We did the best we could. We trusted and had faith in the mystery, the unknown before us. We made decisions - even decisions that on the outside looked unobjectionably moral - well aware of the numerous motives, some good and some bad, that ... Next Entries »About MysteriousFaith
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