The largest and most powerful mass movement in the nation — evangelical Christianity — has set out to destroy secular society. Whenever I talk about the growing power of the evangelical right with friends, they always ask the same question: What can we do? Usually I reply with a joke: Keep a bag packed and …
Of course, compassion is not always a popular virtue. Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don’t want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. And that becomes dangerous. Then you get a clash of warring egos. and … I think we’ve …
Friday was a fun day to hang out with Catherine. We went to Centralia ~ a small town (pop. 15,340) south of Olympia. We visited Book Quest which was fun. Then the Visiting Nurses Thrift Shop and the Goodwill store. Before heading home to Olympia, we went to dinner at La Tarasca, an excellent Mexican …
Language is organic. It evolves and spreads pretty much of its own accord. And you can regulate that process to about the same degree you can regulate the ocean. and Our fear is that language is making us disunited. Indeed, many of the 63 senators who voted for this new measure probably did so with …
Tony Long writes: It was a lousy year, 1968. I was in high school then. I quit the baseball team because, frankly, sports seemed frivolous. In 1968, there were more important things to worry about than perfecting a curveball. All very high-minded and, in retrospect, more than a little pompous. But nearly 40 years down …
As a female opinion journalist, I’ve been called everything from bitch to whore to sweetie. and The psychic impact of hate mail is something female writers don’t often talk about in fear of appearing vulnerable in the male world of opinion writing. I believe women can take the heat of opinion journalism as well as …
These are just a few quotes from Pass the Bread ~ Bill Moyers powerful, May 20, 2006 Baccalaureate Address at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY (posted on CommonDreams.org) Thank you for inviting Judith and me to share this occasion with you. Fifty years ago both of us turned the same corner you are turning today and …
Ben Cohen has an ax to grind with the Pentagon. Or an Oreo to grind, as it were. The man who co-founded Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream thinks there’s a better way to spend $60 billion of the country’s money than on Cold War weapons systems, and he has the numbers to prove it. Mr. …
Alec and I drove up to Seattle on Thursday aftternoon. We were meeting Noel when he got off work at 5:30 but traffic wasn’t bad and we got there early. It was a beautiful day so we got some excercise by walking around the Seattle Center and over to the Experience Music Project (EMP). The …