News from January 2009
January 31st, 2009 by Bender Rodríguez
From "Hugh Makes a List: because there are just too many scandals to remember" by Hugh over at NetRootsMass
January 28th, 2009 by Bender Rodríguez
And yet, a collective sense of national shame will linger for a generation or more.
January 26th, 2009 by Bender Rodríguez
January 18th, 2009 by Bender Rodríguez
January 17th, 2009 by Bender Rodríguez
'I hope my murder will be seen not as a defeat of freedom but an inspiration'. This extraordinary article by the editor of the Sri Lankan Sunday Leader was published three days after he was shot dead in Colombo.
January 13th, 2009 by Bender Rodríguez
Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, addresses the need to restore the rule of law in the United States after 8 years of law breaking within the Bush administration
January 12th, 2009 by Bender Rodríguez
By Frank Rich, in the New York Times Op-Ed Pages
January 2nd, 2009 by Bender Rodríguez
First in a series that I'm calling: "You're an asshole".
""Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively simple question has stumped the elders of the church and embarrassed the finest theologians, precipitating some of the thorniest theological debates over the centuries. All the great religions have elaborate mythologies surrounding the divine act of Creation, but none of them adequately confronts the logical paradoxes inherent in the question that even children ask."
Michio Kaku