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Carville the Understated

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James Carville, a Clinton advisor, quoted in today’s New York Times:

Mr. Richardson’s endorsement [of Barack Obama] came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic.


Of Opiates and People

Zhang Qingli, Communist Party secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region:

The Central Party Committee is the real Buddha for Tibetans.

(Source: New York Times)


The Seven New Deadly Sins

According to Monsignor Gianfranco Girotti:

1. “Bioethical” violations such as birth control
2. “Morally dubious” experiments such as stem cell research
3. Drug abuse
4. Polluting the environment
5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor
6. Excessive wealth
7. Creating poverty

(via The Lede)


Nauseating Non Sequitur of the Week

Most important of all, what will be said and done by those of us who take no side in filthy religious wars? The enemies of intolerance cannot be tolerant, or neutral, without inviting their own suicide.

Which will it be, Mr. Hitchens? Will you “take no side in filthy religious wars” or will you refuse to be “tolerant, or neutral” (such an easy slip down the slope) and therefore stave off your own suicide?


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