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Category Archives: Decline Of The West
“Hope, Change And Throttling U.S. Creativity”
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Let’s read into the record for today the entirety of Mr. Michael Barone’s thoughts on the indicated topic:
We Americans tend to take the great strengths of our country for granted. In the hubbub of political debate, we concentrate on things that are allegedly wrong with America and lose sight of our great achievements.
We make up [...]
Environmentalism *is* a Death Cult.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
People, ordinary random people who for the most part have, understandably enough (really), their hands full getting from one day to the next, in other words people pretty much like me – I don’t know about you — laugh at me when I suggest that the ultimate goals of environmentalism are authoritarian world government followed by [...]
That “nice old lady.”
Friday, July 31, 2009
Messrs Gates, Crowley and Obama fell afoul a cabal of secret watchers. That “elderly lady without a cellphone” is well known to experienced Cambridge residents. These spinsters and widows lurk behind lace curtains and keep an eye on everything. Much of Cambridge consists of small detached houses set cheek by jowl next to each other, [...]
Why Savage is on *that* list.
Friday, May 15, 2009
The British, and most Europeans, are head over heels in love with a sort of zero tolerance hatred of all hate, of anything that might remotely be mistaken for hate. On a list in danger of being perceived (by Muslims) as an expression of Islamophobia on the part of the British government, Savage serves to [...]
…is worth a gazillion words.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
May 11, 2009 at Jerusalem: Standing next to a defensive, suspicious immam (Sheikh Taysir Tamimi) Benedict seems gracious, humble and genteel. Or, could it be that Tamimi is simply terrified of the pontiff?
JanetWatch 2.0
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
We are now on Version 2.0 of JanetWatch! She has managed to tee off the Canadians!
It is time to start up the betting pools on how long she will last at her current job. I wonder, what were her qualifications for this job? I seem to have forgotten.
B16
Sunday, August 5, 2007
I’ve been mulling over “B16″ — aka Holy Father Benedict XVI — since his elevation to the papacy. I continue to mull his address at Regensburg of last September. Here are the challenging paragraphs of that address, the first, wherein God’s essential nature (very loosely speaking of course) according to Islam is addressed:
…for Muslim teaching, [...]
Kant was wrong: some definitions.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Freud used the term “<em>illusion</em>” in the title of one of his books on religion: <strong>The Future Of An Illusion</strong>. A contemporary writer used the term “<em>delusion</em>” in the title of his book on the same topic. Both these terms have common, and technical psychiatric, definitions. Let’s take the more straightforward of the two, “illusion,” [...]
Kant was wrong.
Thursday, February 1, 2007
I’ve set myself a goal: to deflate the claim, now current with the crunchy granola, pigtail and leather hat wearing crowd, that all monotheisms are inherently intolerant. This position — and it’s not sufficiently well thought-out to merit that label — comes with a corollary, i.e. that all monotheisms are equally culpable for the evil [...]