Natural disasters ... are often followed by a lot of religious soul-searching, with people wondering how a good, merciful, all-powerful God could allow such terrible things to happen. The question is: how come the radical environmentalists -- the ones for whom environmentalism is not merely a commitment to securing a livable environment for human beings, but a nature religion -- never ask these kinds of questions⢠Why doesn't the "nature good, humans bad" crowd ever wonder how a good, benevolent, harmonious Nature can allow tens of thousands of her children to die horrible deaths⢠Think about it: if Mother Earth were really a mother, she'd have to be hauled in for child abuse.
Cathy Young
From The Y Files ( cathyyoung.blogspot.com )
Simply put, we're written into an agreement wording that legitimizes North Korea having nuclear power and set ourselves up for a "denuclearized Korean peninsula" that will never be. The U.S. has no nukes in South Korea and South Korea has no nukes, so it's unclear how one "denuclearizes" the peninsula unless it involves getting the U.S. forces, with their nuclear guarantee, off the peninsula.
The only diplomatic triumph here belongs to Kim Jong Il, in a victory only the creators of "South Park" and the puppet movie "Team America" (in which Kim "starred") can truly appreciate.
Bottom line: North Korea was just punted to the next administration.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
From Thomas P.M. Barnett: Weblog ( thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog )
The once grand American tradition of going to the mall has been ruined. First by making malls so big that you need to pack a lunch to walk around them, and then by laying kiosk landmines all over the place. No, I don't want to try it, I don't want to buy it, and why in the world are they putting you 15 feet apart from each other⢠Where does one go to avoid you⢠The Food Court⢠That's no good; you'll get run down by the teriyaki chicken guy. Hiding is futile, they will find you. And when they do, they will make you buy lotion.
"Bethany"
From Moxy ( roxymoxy.blogspot.com )
Back in late 2000, I remember no shortage of German acquaintances suggesting to me that the fiasco in Florida was enough to call the whole U.S. system of elections into question. Shoes. Other feet.
Doug Merrill
A Fistful of Euros ( fistfulofeuros.net )
