Damned if we Do and Da . . . oh, hell, you know the rest

So, now that the Bushits have got into this war in Iraq, what are our options?

Well, number one, we could Hang Tough, Stay The Course, and remain in the country till Mission Accomplished . . . which means that lots of Americans and lots and lots of Iraqis will keep getting killed while we’re in the middle of a covert civil war and every crackpot terrorist in the known universe targets America, and, oh, yes, there’s no oil coming out of Iraq to fuel our nice shiny new hummers.

Hmm. That’s pretty ugly. So . . .

Option two, we End The War, Pull Out, and Bring Our Boys (and Girls) Home . . . and, that means there’s an overt civil war, lots and lots and lots of Iraqis get slaughtered, every crackpot terrorist in the known universe learns that if you just kill enough Americans then the country caves, which means a bunch of us get killed, too, and, oh, yes, there’s no oil coming out of Iraq to fuel our nice shiny new Hummers.

Uh . . .

Say, would someone please stand up and let me know which one of these is the lesser of two evils? I’m having a hard time figuring it out.

What they've done to Chirstianity

I go to church regularly. One of my better friends is a minister. And yet . . .

Today I heard that among the witnesses at the Enron Trial was a professor from Texas Christian University. He seemed reasonable and learned. But, you know what?

After Bush, after Tom Delay, after Pat Robertson, after the Religious Right, after the invasion of Iraq, after the pedophile scandal in the Church, after the bombings of abortion clinics, after attempts to impose Creationism on public schools, after . . . well, after everything . . .

The very first thing I thought was: How could anyone take seriously a witness from an institution with “Christian” and “Texas” in its name?