I went out to do a few errands today, and the following three messages all appeared within an hour or so, within a few miles of each other. And no, I don’t think it was meant to be funny.
[Sigh] I would have been very satisfied had I gone to my grave without ever mentioning the words “Glenn” and “Beck” together on this blog, or any other page. Ten years ago, in the summer of 2010, Beck was one of the behemoths of rightwing talk media, big on Fox, big on radio, mainlining anti-immigrant … Continue reading Taking Names In Vain: Glenn Beck, Dr. King, & Me
Martin Bell is a former BBC reporter and a former Member of the British parliament. At a recent forum on peace and security issues organized by Colchester Quakers, Martin Bell had this to say about his country’s part in the Afghanistan war:
So I’m walking through the Wal-Mart parking lot the other day – (Yeah, I shop there. Whadda ya think — I live in one of your university-hugging, professional middle class greeny suburbs? This is army town, no time for that fluff. We had two Supercenters when I got here; now there’s five. Whole Foods & … Continue reading American War Christianity & Quaker Ecumenism
“Mission Accomplished.” May 1 is the seventh anniversary of the day that banner hung above the USS Abraham Lincoln. Remember? What painful memories that image brings back!