Le Prêtre NoirChallenging the Church is like goading a Rhino. Getting it pissed off is the easy part. Getting to change direction once it's charging is another thing altogther.(Untitled)- July 9, 2004 Friday Morning Nightmare It's relatively early Friday morning and I am performing my morning ritual of walking the dogs, checking up on the blogs, and reading the NY Times. This morning there was a picture of Dick and Tom, all serious and important, telling us that Osama bin Laden was plotting another massive attack against the U.S. sometime this year. "The intelligence is cryptic," said one officical, but they're gearing us up for an attack just the same. Also, yesterday, we were...http://blogs.salon.com/0001823/2004/07/09.html#a25 (Untitled)- July 6, 2004 O Say, Won't You See We just got back from seeing Fahrenheit 911. We were surprised that it even showed up here, this place being the bastion of Republicanism that it is. But there it was, at our local theater, so we decided to go tonite with some friends of ours. Surprisingly, there was a good crowd there for a Monday night at the end of a holiday weekend. And a number of people I knew were there, even though they were staunch conservative Republicans. One of them.http://blogs.salon.com/0001823/2004/07/05.html#a24 (Untitled)- July 4, 2004 Suicide Pact Barbara Ehrenreich offers an Op-Ed piece in the NY Times today comparing George III and George II in a careful reading of the Declaration of Independence: Their George and Ours By BARBARA EHRENREICH hen they first heard the Declaration of Independence in July of 1776, New Yorkers were so electrified that they toppled a statue of King George III and had it melted down to make 42,000 bullets for the war. Two hundred twenty-eight years later, you can still get a rush from...http://blogs.salon.com/0001823/2004/07/04.html#a23 |