The true believer has a relatively easy time of it. Unshakable, uncompromising faith, buttressed by the congregation, and the authority of dogma, relieve the credulous of much heavy intellectual lifting.…
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# Journal Entry
Programming on NPR today quite understandably included segments related to the celebration of our independence. There were views of politicians and soldiers from Iraq, coverage of Bush’s message, etc.…
This land is your land, This land is my land From California, to the New York island; From the red wood forest, to the Gulf Stream waters This land was…
From: 3personsin1God@HOL . Com To: Dragon City Journal James, Or Dragon, or whatever you are calling yourself these days. That “Pair-of-Cleats” stuff wasn’t funny back in 1957, and…
Recently, the Chinese oil company, CNOOC, made a bid to acquire America’s Unocal; the equivalent of the “yellow peril” coming to siphon gas out of our SUVs. Never mind the…
In a article in Harper’s several years ago Tom Wolfe argued that the reality that we see on the news every day was getting so bizarre and extreme that it was outstripping…
Most any group of Americans traveling abroad will include someone like Ann T. Sepsis. If Ann is scrupulously hygienic at home, where the bacteria and microbes have an almost comforting…
Where Can You Find 72 Virgins These Days, and Other Questions? Anyone who has been in a state of consciousness for the past few years couldn’t help hearing about the conception of…
Morely Safer has always been my favorite 60 Minutes correspondent. It wasn’t just that taciturn expression, which seemed only to crack that craggy visage for a moment to display amusement or…
Elections, like wars, are complex events in which it is difficult to assign specific causality to outcomes. In a close election amidst a “culture war” that difficulty is amplified…