Homage to Icarus

Sadly, No! throws an offhanded dig at Mark Noonan’s descrip­tion of the “Kingdom of God” as a state of exis­tence. While Noonan even­tu­ally does come out in favor of democ­racy, you’ll note that it’s only because you can’t guar­an­tee you’ll get a com­pe­tent and benev­o­lent dic­ta­tor (one who only oppresses The Other) not because the […]

I’m done blog­ging par­tic­u­larly on pol­i­tics. I’m done because (essen­tially) all polit­i­cal blogs are turn­ing into the minor leagues of pun­ditry, let­ting pro­pa­gan­dists hone their craft before being wran­gled, branded, and paid to use those same skills as the future Priesthoods of Power. This is not a con­test between the two par­ties, this is simply […]

Now that it is widely known that the CIA is tor­tur­ing peo­ple in a string of secret pris­ons around the world, is there going to be a retrac­tion from those who crit­i­cized Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) for his use of the term GULAG to describe the U.S. government’s inter­ro­ga­tion cen­ters and pris­ons?
Somehow, I doubt it.