so saith the Archbishop of Canterbury: A stark warning that human greed is threatening to destroy the environment was issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury in his Christmas message, while the leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales appealed to people to be more welcoming to immigrants. Dr Rowan Williams appealed to Christians to do more to safeguard the planet, saying it should not be used “as a warehouse

Meh. Researchers in Israel say they have succeeded in putting a version of the Bible on a chip smaller than a pinhead.       

hours after Bhutto’s assassination, Joe Scarborough can’t help talking about how this is supposed to affect the Republican and Democratic primaries.  And I stumble across this at Greg Sargent’s TPM site, thinking, “Sargent’s a putz, but he’s right that this is tasteless; let the frickin’ corpse cool, forgodsake.”  Only to find that he’s bent out of shape because Scarborough opines this will help Rudy and Hill. The candidates will, of course, jockey

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In another victory for political dialogue, splodeydopes get their point across through massacre and assassination: Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in the wake of a suicide bombing that killed at least 14 of her supporters, doctors, a spokesman for her party and other officials said. Bhutto is helped from her vehicle following the October 18 suicide attack on her motorcade. 1 of 2 Bhutto suffered bullet

Via Memeorandum, I discovered that Andrew Sullivan is recommending the equally clueless Juan Cole’s “Top Ten Myths about Iraq 2007”: I’ve learned to discount some of Cole’s gloom, but his current analysis is factually crammed with data and news that suggest what we are experiencing right now is not peace but a lull. Much of the evidence suggests a deepening of the sectarian divide, not a lessening, despite some local

Remember, intellectual sophistication and penetration is best indexed by the depth of perversity: The abstract of the paper, authored by doctoral candidate Tal Nitzan, notes that the paper shows that “the lack of organized military rape is an alternate way of realizing [particular] political goals.” The next sentence delineates the particular goals that are realized in this manner: “In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it can be seen that the lack of military

The Chicago Tribune reports a bump on the road to excusing those who enter the United States illegally: Chicago’s immigrant rights movement was on the verge of making history, and Nicole Perez was ready to lend her voice when she was told, with an angry sneer, that she was not welcome. That was March 10, 2006. Perez and her lesbian partner, Xiomara Santana, had joined more than 100,000 demonstrators in the

The Internet’s most notorious sock-puppeteer left everybody some shiny new strawmen for Christmas: Mike Huckabee’s Christmas ad — like everything Huckabee does — provoked all sorts of vehement, angry, un-Christmas-like attacks from Republican pundits. The GOP establishment almost uniformly claimed that the edges of the bookshelf behind Huckabee formed the shape of a cross, which — along with Huckabee’s mention of the word “Christ” — rendered Huckabee guilty of making

Merry Christmas to all the regulars. And Merry Christmas to Jeff, even though he’s, you know, one of them.  Here’s a little blessing, as only the Irish can do it.  And to our leftard friends, don’t worry, you’re included in this blessing, too.  See if you can pick yourselves out. May those who love us, love us.  And those that don’t love us, may God turn their hearts.  And if he doesn’t