Not an unprecedented pile of bollocks
The news is full of the foiled airliner attack plot in the UK. The possible attack has as usual been followed up by an all-out assault on common sense and…
Hamburger madrasas
A friend sends me today a link to David Byrne’s blog. Byrne’s latest entry is about ultra-Christian, ultra-right wing community schools that conflate the Bible with a political agenda. Are…
Peace in our time with bombs
Three weeks into the war in the Lebanon and the UN has finally agreed, after some intense wrangling about the specifics, to prevaricate some more. The process in the UN…