Archive for March 29th, 2005

A Child’s Letter to God

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

My inner child has been bugging me for the past few weeks. Tired from work tonight, I finally gave in and let him have a go at the keyboard. I’ve since proofread and corrected spelling and punctuation, to facilitate his message, but I’m amazed at the subject he chose. Apparently the little guy has been listening when the family discussed things. There’s hope for him yet.
Here’s what he wrote:

Yeah, that’s what I want to know.

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

NY Times Op-ed columnist Paul Krugman has something to say about the current trend in religious extremism:

“What’s goin on?”

NY Times Op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd thinks the same about political morality as I do.

“As the Bush White House desperately maneuvers in Iraq to prevent the new government from being run according to the dictates of religious fundamentalists, it desperately maneuvers here to pander to religious fundamentalists who want to dictate how the government should be run”.

and:

‘Even some Republicans seemed appalled at this latest illustration of Nietzsche’s observation that “morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.”‘