The Israeli airforce bombed Gaza yesterday.  I read about how cleverly they chose their targets.  What about their timing?  Palestinian children were making their way home from school all over the Gaza when it happened.  I also read that after a target was hit once, a bomber returned to hit it again, while rescue workers [...]

PREDICTION: landslide.
If I try to imagine how long it has taken and at what cost it has come about, that a black citizen of America should rise to the post of POTUS, I feel
gutted.

They called him a socialist and a muslim – as if those were, by definition – bad things.  They called him a [...]

“The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government… Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level of shared disinterest known as the public good. Without this greater interest, the individual is reduced to a lesser, narrower being limited to immediate needs.” – John Ralston Saul

post mortem (two [...]