Originally we invaded Iraq to stop Saddam Hussein from giving away thousands of WMDs to terrorist cells all over the work; when the WMDs turned out to be bunk, we decided that we invaded to depose an evil dictator and bring democracy to the middle east. Now it seems that the democracy so much touted [...]
Aside from the real human costs of the conflict in Iraq, there is a staggering financial cost. Linda Bilmes documents some of these costs in today’s New York Times. Bilmes notes that at current levels, the Iraqi conflict is costing the US approximately $6 billion a month to maintain — that’s $6,000,000,000 per month. Based [...]
Senate majority leader, dr. Bill Frist has come out in favor of teaching ‘Intelligent Design’ along side the theory of evolution. dr. Frist, a well known and popular faith healer in his home state of Tennessee, was most recently in the news when he made a remote viewing diagnosis of the brain dead Terri Shiavo. [...]
Today’s news that another four American soldiers were killed in Iraq is another tragedy of this conflict. My hometown is considering a resolution calling for an immediate withdrawal of military forces from Iraq. I have many friends and neighbors who support such a resolution; yet, I am unenthusiastic about such a prospect. On the one [...]
Eons ago when I did my first under grad degree, I was for to take an introduction to logic course. I hated this course – the professor droned on in a monotone about set theory and group operators. Nonetheless, I did pickup some interesting and useful skills from the coursework. One of the more useful [...]
Yesterday, Larry Northern, of Northern Realtors, Waco, TX, was arrested for “criminal mischief” after running over 300 white crosses bearing the names of soldiers killed in Iraq. The crime took place outside of Crawford, TX, near president Bush’s ranch. The display of crosses was part of a protest camp established by Cindy Sheehan, [...]
I have morbid interest in unusual holy relics — it’s a catholic thing. Liz at Blondsense has made me aware of a miracle pierogi which features the image of Jesus. Apparently the divine dumpling was sold for some $1700 on eBay — it is not specified whether it was a potato pierogi or cheese [...]
