Category: Ethics, Morality & Religion
-
The weather is hot, blog traffic is down and I am out of ideas. So it’s links time again. The stories here range from extra terrestrial thrills to earthly narrow mindedness, with a bit of not so well known history thrown in the mix. Enjoy! Phoenix Mars Lander unearths (un-Martiates?) Martian polar ice. LOS ANGELES…
-
Ah, the Republicans! See what else they were selling at their convention.
-
Dahlia Lithwick in Newsweek.
-
Lindsay Beyerstein in Majikthise.
-
It is always gratifying when a powerful entity apologize to a weaker one for past wrongs. It doesn’t happen often. The US government has paid reparations for the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII and issued apologies for the infamous Tuskegee Study, but not for the plight of Native Americans or for slavery. Japan refuses to…
-
The Guardian reports that the US has been holding suspected terrorists without trial in ships off the coasts of foreign countries – a floating Guantanamo Bay, in other words. The UK human rights group Reprieve has accused the US government of illegally detaining prisoners and possibly torturing them aboard the ships using CIA and foreign…
-
What’s with some men of God? Rather than soothe the nerves of their flocks, they fancy themselves as rabble rousers, political heavy hitters, all knowing prognosticators and revisionist history scholars. First Barack Obama gently distanced himself from his long time pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright when video clips of Wright’s fiery sermons surfaced. A few…
-
During our vacation a week ago, my daughter and I stopped by at the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice. The organization is an advocacy group for workers involved in the reconstruction of New Orleans after the devastation of Katrina. The vast rebuilding effort led the US government to permit recruitment of foreign laborers…
-
Cross-posted from Fluff-n-Stuff ——————————————————– A few days ago, I opened my morning paper to a surprise news item crowing about a plan to distribute free ‘Pittsburghized’ New Testaments to over 250,000 subscribers. Now, I am well used to eating my morning cereal from the little sample boxes that I pick up with my newspaper, or…
-
Because he is black! During my vacation last week, every time I put the TV on in my hotel room, I came across yet another lame excuse, counter-factual argument and shifting of the goal post by Hillary and Bill Clinton and their desperate handymen explaining that Barack Obama cannot win the general election in November…
Accidental Blogger 