The Age of Reason

From one of my favorite bloggers come this piece, Age of Reason. If you read nothing else this month this one is worthy.

For example:

The great appeal of Sarah Palin is that bone-ignorant people recognize that she is every bit as bone-ignorant as they are. This comforts, not threatens, them. That is truly the sort of person they want running their lives.(snip)People fear what they don’t understand. It has always been such. And the greatest wrong that the anti-Enlightenment crusaders against objective truth commit, in my view, is that they play to that ignorance, seeding the fear, and thus birth and nurture the hate.

The entire posting is excellent IMHO. Read and ponder.

Peace.

$3 Trillion and Beyond

The costs of the Iraq War are now pegged in excess of $3 trillion with no apparent end in sight. Give a bit of thought to what those numbers mean. Our great grandchildren will be paying the bills as most of the money is borrowed as part of the national debt. Our infrastructure suffers daily (schools, hospitals, roads, water supplies, and public buildings) while there is not enough money to complete repairs or even to supply regular maintenance.

When ever will the American public awaken to the travesty that was and continues to be the continuation of the Iraq occupation? Bad as the dollars are day by day what about the human lives being lost to this day? We have lost too many already. We have no more dollars to waste and no more children to lose to war.

Peace.