Wonderfulness

We live in a society oriented around our inner wonderfulness.

Village Voice for Nazism

[Jewish?] Michael Feingold in the VILLAGE VOICE: "I personally think [Republicans] should be exterminated before they cause any more harm".

College life

"What students are getting is four or five years of country club living." With campuses looking more and more like resorts and the undergraduate experience feeling more like a four or five year vacation on a luxury cruise liner or at Disneyland, The Motley Monk would observe the culture has moved away from an "academic intensive" experience.

PM Tony Blair

"Having Blair as a Catholic is like having a vegetarian in a meat-eating club"

Famine in India 2

Lyndon Johnson’s withholding of food aid to India during the 1966 famine.

Famine in India

Thirty years later, the same policy of neglect contributed to a famine that killed as many as 10 million people in India, again because of the Malthusian fallacy that, as Sir Evelyn Baring told Parliament, “every benevolent attempt made to mitigate the effects of famine and defective sanitation serves but to enhance the evils resulting from overpopulation.”

Left and right

Ann Post is another one of those directionally-challenged Episcopalians for whom left is always right.