On Corruption
Crossposted at eccleioleft.blogspot.com I was at a lunch for the visiting committee here at CTS this afternoon, and one of my tablemates pointed out during conversation that power is not something we...
View ArticleGetting in Before a Stupid Fight...
Maybe this will come to nothing, but a piece in the Washington Post on Saturday, and a post on TalkLeft on Sunday made me want to write. We see a lot at DKos about the 50 state strategy, and about...
View ArticleOn Quitting Iraq
Earlier today, this diary pointed out that some 100 U.S. troops had signed An Appeal for Redress, a document that urges Congress to remove all American troops and bases from Iraq. Last night, this...
View ArticleHistory: Marriage and the Church
Since the NJ ruling yesterday, and the Ford comments, and kos's post on the Ford comment, and... well, you get the idea... at least one diary and a few comments have shown up suggesting that there...
View ArticleMy Two (Penguin) Dads I: Altruism
In 2005, "And Tango Makes Three", a picture book based on the true story of two male penguins raising an abandoned baby penguin, was published. Apparently, some people are upset by what have been...
View ArticleMy Two (Penguin) Dads II: Mobilizing History
Yesterday I posted "My Two (Penguin) Dads I: Altruism", about how the somewhat controversial book "And Tango Makes Three" might be used to teach about altruism, especially towards the huge number of...
View ArticleTendencies of Corruption
As has already been covered on DKos, there was an NYT article over the weekend detailing how some Democrats might be considering backing off on ethics reforms. However, since I've only been able to...
View ArticleReligious (Il)literacy
This diary and the comments that went with it got me thinking (in all fairness, so did this one, and this one, and, well, let's face it... I could probably name every diary I've read on DKos, but I'm...
View ArticleReligious (Il)literacy: The Christian Left Finally Stands Up... Again
Originally, I was going to do a series of diary on religious (il)literacy that was based around the idea that many people don't really understand the vocabulary and the ideas that are prominent in...
View ArticleWhy Theology is Good for Politics
I know, I know, religion has no place in politics; politicians shouldn't ever speak in religious language or at religious events; religion is the cause for most, if not all, of the suffering in the...
View ArticleReligious Illiteracy: Hermeneutics
I've been reading Sam Harris' The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (I bought it during vacation and thought I'd finish, but since returning to work I've been stuck just next to...
View ArticleWright did Something for Us
A while ago, I went back to being a bit of a lurker around here. I had been one for a long time, and then started making comments and the occasional diary (though I was never very prolific), and then...
View ArticleThe Ad About Community Organizing I Want to See
Fade in on Rudy Giuliani at the convention, making fun of community organizing. As the voiceover starts, its words appear on the screen: "What is community organizing?" It continues: "Bringing people...
View ArticleSome Promises Were Broken
When I was growing up, I remember being told about how important an education was. I remember being told that, if you just finished high school, if you just worked hard, if you just got good enough...
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