in the newsImportant things in the news today: 1) Bill Simon is dropping out of the California governor's race "in the interset of the Republican Party" according to a spokesperson. This leaves Brooke Adams as Arnold's only serious rightwing competition. Brooke has yet to challenge Arnold to his choice of a debate or mud-wrestling match. 2) A federal judge has ruled that there is no way in hell that any intelligent person could mistake Al Franken for the Fox News Channel. 3) Double Asshat nominee Chief Justice Roy Moore has been suspended from the Alabama Supreme Court for refusing to obey a federal court ruling requiring the removal of a monument to the Ten Commandments. Andrew Stuttaford reports that Judge Moore, while accepting an award from the National Clergy Council and Methodist Episcopal Church USA, told the audience that Godlessness may have been the cause of the September 11 attacks: "How many of you remember Americans running to get gas masks because (of) some bearded man in Afghanistan?" Moore asked during his address at Georgetown University. "Fear struck this countryJohn Derbyshire (stupidly) defends the Moore's and the Pat Robertson's of the world because these comments "are theologically perfectly respectable in both the Judiac and Christian (and therefore, presumably, also the Muslim) traditions." Well John, stoning a disobedient child is also deeply rooted in Christian tradition, but no one really believes in the policy today. Likewise, God-guilt because some terrorists half a world away decided to murder 2,500 of our own is also really out of date. I thought the vengeful God went out of style with the Old Testament. |
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