Terry Jones — Um, Make That Satan — Is Back In The News
Tempers are flaring again in the backward community Church of the Burning Book, run by Pastor Terry Jones. . .
Afutilestan (IX) XI
On the ninth anniversary of 9/11 (the day that America became unhinged and ushered in a lucrative national security state), we remember the innocent victims and the heroes who lost their lives trying to save them and others. Seven thousand miles away, a hundred thousand American troops and another hundred thousand plus private contractors and NATO troops are supposedly fighting …
Turning Back The Hands Of Time
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Weekend at Burnies www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Debating the nuances of evolutionary religion While the context is the Mad Pastor Terry Jones‘ proposed burning of the Quran this Saturday, Jon Stewart and John Oliver take a peek under the hood of what The …
Open Cordoba House (Update)
Mezquita, or Mosque-Church, in Cordoba, Spain If I were to write a script that pitted a protagonist who spent his life building bridges between peoples of diverse faiths and cultures against a hate filled, bigoted antagonist dedicated to tearing them down, I couldn’t find a better ‘ripped from the headlines’ duo to base it on than Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf …
Christian Taliban To Burn Qu’rans
Christian Taliban leader Terry Jones burned in effigy in Afghanistan This Saturday on the ninth anniversary of 9/11, members of a small Muslim hating Christian group, ironically called Dove World Outreach Church, plan to burn a pile of Qu’rans to demonstrate their hatred of Islam. It’s not like we haven’t been down this road before. Five years ago reports of …
World Fail 101
Intractable international problems continually and increasingly reveal how ineffective— and unethical— it is for any single nation, like the United States, to assume the mantle of “World Sheriff.”
Paul Conrad, R.I.P.
Paul Conrad cartoon censored by the LA Times, 1999 Growing up in LA, Paul Conrad was the first political cartoonist I ever read. He did much to light my political fires. He’ll be missed. Paul Conrad dies at 86; Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist helped bring The Times to national prominence. His unyielding liberal stance, delivered as savage black-and-white harpoons, bedeviled …
