Monthly Archives: September 2006

Cultural Suicide

If you read this article in the SF Chronicle about the cancellation of the Mozart opera that featured the severed heads of Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, and Poseidon, you will be hard put to tell whether it was cancelled from fear … Continue reading

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Go Pope

It does look more and more like the Pope knew exactly what he was doing and did it on purpose. I applaud him for it. I only wish he had been more direct. I think that a challenge by the … Continue reading

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Torture

I’m not sure where I stand on the current debate over legislation to conform to the Hamdan Supreme Court decision. I believe that some of the “coercive interrogation techniques” that have been used by the CIA on a half dozen … Continue reading

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The Religion of Politics

There are infinite alternative universes that could have replaced this one, had we not gone into Iraq. Some might be better than the current reality and some might be much worse. Which one would have happened is impossible for anyone … Continue reading

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