Well, I fear as if I’m going to be accused of high crimes and misdemeanors, but less than a quarter the way through Lincoln I worried that if I saw one more cliche I was going to throw up. I wanted this movie so bad to be good. No. I wanted it to be great. …
When you lose the ability to make distinctions in a world of greys, you enable those who see things as black and white to win. When it has to be all or nothing, you end up with nothing. These are self-fulfilling prophecies and only lead to more cynicism. We must make choices in the real …
Today is Dec 7. Growing up in the shadow of world war, you remembered and honored those days. Days like Armistice Day and Pearl Harbor. When done rightly, the honor fell upon those who risked and gave their lives to stop global tyranny. When done badly, the day could become a day of self-righteous preening …
Please, please, please see the brilliant documentary FORKS OVER KNIVES. This is a battle we can win in which everyone (except a handful of large corporations) wins. This non-judgmental, non-guilt-inducing, non-“we-know-better-than-you-you-dumb schmuck,” totally fascinating film can change your life. And maybe save it, too. – Gordon Jack Schultz . .
U.S. was born a Christian nation Evangelical writer and thinker, Robert Knight, author of “Fighting for America’s Soul: How Sweeping Change Threatens Our Nation and What We Must Do,” and one of the drafters of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, has prepared for CNN.com an essay asserting that America’s creation was, in fact, rooted …
This just in from Gordon Jack Schultz: “I truly thought I’d become jaded, that nothing could surprise me. I owe a debt to Fox News and its doting parent for arousing in me true astonishment at how stupid Fox News thinks Americans are. I had really thought there was a limit to hypocrisy. Thanks, Fox, …
So right-wing “Christians” are claiming that if American Muslims pray near the site of the World Trade Center Massacre radical Muslims around the world will cry “Victory over America.” I’m astonished at the sheer stupidity of people who call themselves “Christian” who think there is a monolithic Islam, that all Muslims march in lockstop–secretly or …