I feel curiously vindicated after reading Frank Rich’s column:- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/opinion/04rich.html?hp My cognitive dissonance theory of the unreasonable attitudes towards the Obama Presidency by some quarters on the Left (notably the base) is entirely justified in one paragraph:- “… a friend who is a prominent liberal Obama supporter sent me an [...]

So the evidence stacks up against the Vatican’s spin that the issue of child abuse by priests wasn’t merely an American problem, as they would want to have us originally believe. I could have saved them the trouble and told them differently. Paedophilic priests have been part and parcel of [...]

I. History of Nowruz Imagine it’s the fifth century before the Common Era, on a plain bejeweled with a magnificent palace complex and flowing gardens, with the coffee brown Zagros mountains in the distance, and a sky the color of lapis lazuli. Colorful tents and scents all around, wafting in [...]

Happy Easter to all! While you were sleeping all snug in your beds last night, The Easter Planet was hiding political Easter eggs in this article. Following are anagrams of the names of people in the news we’ve written about at The Planet all year. See if you can find [...]

I just read this, and can’t believe I’ve never heard of it. Has anyone else? I am posting the article in its entirety. Am I missing something here, or is this as bad as the Citizen’s United SCOTUS decision? I need talking down. Alternet April 2, 2010 By Aaron Lake [...]

Like most Catholics, former Catholics, fallen Catholics, broken Catholics and my favourite term, Catholic survivors, I have a complicated relationship with the Catholic Church. I grew up Catholic, turned my back on the church many, many years ago over its entrenched hypocrisy and corruption, and utterly evil history (I also [...]

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Since it’s the day after April Fools day I thought songs about fools and humorous topics would be a good theme for music night. For the third week in a row a Beatles song is the best place to start. The Beatles – Fool on the Hill Evanescence – Everybody’s [...]

A Few Samples Click to see all the idiocy.

A Liberal was talking to a Conservative. The Liberal said that he had a hard time listening to global warming deniers telling us that there’s no such thing as global warming. He continued “they don’t even know what a barometer is.” The conservative responded – “ain’t that who the president [...]

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two they would cut each other’s throats, but there are thirty and they live in peace and happiness. Voltaire This is the last article in this series.  I hope it has been of [...]

This is either a brilliant strategic move by the GOP to put Dems and Pres. Obama on the spot or the polling may be showing that being the Party of No and repealing HCR is a losing proposition in November. If you didn’t see the press conference this morning, John [...]

During the day, do you read a story and you feel it is worth sharing?  Where to place it? I don’t like to disrupt someone’s thread or thoughtful post and it is not worthy of posting a lengthy article, do you?  Let’s try to leave this up in speakers corner [...]