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Thursday, September 21, 2006
Where the Hell Have I Been?
I acknowledge that my hiatus from my blog warrants an explanation. I felt that I was not meeting the standards that I set for myself as a graduate student, so I put myself on punishment with the hope of improving academic discipline...it didn't work.
And now we will return to our regularly scheduled programming...
And now we will return to our regularly scheduled programming...
El Diablo Estaba Aquí
I have to admit that I wasn't expecting much in terms of meaningful dialogue at the UN shindig; I basically see it as a roast for President Bush and the concept of the United Nations en général, only that the comments are not in jest. Still, I suppose that I will have to give Chavez an honorable mention for his comment, courtesy of the LA Times:
"'Yesterday, the devil came here. Right here.' He crossed himself. 'Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today.'"
Who needs "Reality" TV when you've got the news?
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Radicals and the Moral High Ground
I know I am a little behind on responding to the Pope's speech and the reaction that followed, but I wanted to think about it for a bit before I said anything, because I wanted to be fair to both sides, but now I have to ask: do "radicals" ever embrace the concept of moral high ground?
I am not just talking about Islamic radicals...I mean radicals period. Take the Army of God (not Hezbollah, the one in the U.S. that bombs abortion clinics, etc.) for example. How is it possible to justify a cause that claims to save lives through murder? I could name several more groups that lost the moral high ground by choosing violence, including the Black Panthers, but I hope the point has been made. In the case of the Pope's quote of a historic figure's comments, didn't anyone realize that by burning churches and killing a nun that they were reinforcing the very quote that they were disputing?
I guess the question that I am asking is: has the radical's cause degenerated into rebelling for the sake of rebelling?
I am not just talking about Islamic radicals...I mean radicals period. Take the Army of God (not Hezbollah, the one in the U.S. that bombs abortion clinics, etc.) for example. How is it possible to justify a cause that claims to save lives through murder? I could name several more groups that lost the moral high ground by choosing violence, including the Black Panthers, but I hope the point has been made. In the case of the Pope's quote of a historic figure's comments, didn't anyone realize that by burning churches and killing a nun that they were reinforcing the very quote that they were disputing?
I guess the question that I am asking is: has the radical's cause degenerated into rebelling for the sake of rebelling?
Monday, September 11, 2006
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