Month: April 2005

Some rants about the pope hoopla

I have tried to avoid the religious threads in the past week as this was not a time to be provocative, but am I the only one to find the wall-to-wall coverage of the pope’s death and funeral to be a little bit over the...

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UPDATE: Tom Ridge- Remember him?

   Tom Ridge has gone on to bigger Homeland Security green pastures. The connections that he has with Bushco, and Security Issues and now RFIDs is not only curious, but down right terrifying. Tom Ridge, former...

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Middle East Set to “Explode”

I am raising this issue again. This story has the potential to be much more significant than the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles. But you would never know it by watching your television. I am still hoping...

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Challenging the Christian Right

The events of the past few weeks, from the Terri Schiavo drama, to the attack on the state and federal courts by Christian Rightists in Congress, underscores the power and signficance of the Christian Right in American politics....

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