so much to say, so little time to say it

Here come a bunch of links with commentary.


My boy Richard Dawkins takes on critics of The God Delusion. The Courtier's Reply that he mentions is here.

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Here's one about how paternalistic our culture is becoming. I'm not sure that is expressed the right way, but you get the point. In other paternalism news, the Pope recently said this mind-blowing bullshit:

Benedict said Latin American Indians had been "silently longing" to become Christians when Spanish and Portuguese conquerors took over their native lands centuries ago, though many Indians were enslaved and killed.

"In effect, the proclamation of Jesus and of his Gospel did not at any point involve an alienation of the pre-Columbus cultures, nor was it the imposition of a foreign culture," he said.

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And speaking of mind-blowing, here is a story about Tom Delay excreting pure authoritarian self-blindness.

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Here's a story about how the only bias that CBS is concerned about is anti-Bush bias. Pro-Bush bias is quite acceptable. Damn that liberal media.

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Chuck is a smart man.

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And to sum it all up:

The situation is now so godawful, so completely coo-coo, and so totally out of control that future historians will shake their heads in amazement trying to figure out why, by the spring of '07, the US politicians and the public haven't demanded the immediate removal of the Bush administration from office and their incarceration in the Hague to stand trial.

We live in very strange times.