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As summer days wax short like a dimming candle, and crowds enjoy the last hot dogs and good old American symbols of this close out, news is light especially on our topics.

Yet Christopher Hitchens just has to emulate the flickers of the fading candle, with his sparkles outdone by the dimming of want of faith. Here he shows us all a facet of the foolishness feeble faith fosters. With Terri facts, poor Christopher is made the dummie. Christopher counts the ways. Christopher, may we count the ways, too, on how wrong you are? Or why not spare us that embarrassing glimpse and end this last long weekend with a hot dog and a soda, like US?

Perhaps fact is the four letter f--- word in your vocabulary.

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How do I dislike President George W. Bush? Let me count the ways. Most of them have to do with his contented assumption that "faith" is, in and of itself, a virtue.

~Snip~

It also explains the unforgivable intervention that Bush made into the private life of the Schiavo family: leaving his Texas ranch to try to keep "alive" a woman whose autopsy showed that her brain had melted to below flatline a long time before.

Christopher Hitchens: Apocalypse perhaps, but Vietnam it ain't

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[8mmMauser]

Thread by wagglebee, on eugenics. We persevere.

The looks on their faces were somber as they listened to recordings of the stories of those who were forcibly sterilized under North Carolina’s eugenics program.

About 300 people came to Winston-Salem State University yesterday for an opening reception and to see the state’s new exhibit explaining the program.

Facing the Past: New generations learn about shameful forced sterilizations

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"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."

[floriduh voter]

Christopher Hitchens despises all religion. It seems like the longer he’s a pundit, the less sense he makes and he’s married. I feel sorry for his wife but not much. If he hates American values, he should go back to the UK. He must be miserable here.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Should have put a barf alert on that article.

Been keeping the computer shut off for most of the time, because of the weather, so I didn’t post about the excellent posts about Tim(T’wit). The two eulogies were very cool.