Artemis Enteri writes:
somehow calling one man Dubya is cool and calling the next one Hussein is not.
you guys and your double standards.
Should call him junior. For one thing he really hates it and for another, he really earned it.
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie
This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. - the character Rorschach in Watchmen