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The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.'' - Ron Suskind, Without a Doubt, NY Times, October 17, 2004

December 09, 2004

Two Solitudes (Jesusland revisited)

On the same day that the Supreme Court of Canada clears the way for same-sex marriage in the northern half of our shared continent, the Bush administration takes up the torch carried by supporters of crackpot Alabama judge Roy Moore, and urges the U.S. Supreme Court to allow courthouses to display the Ten Commandments.

posted by sangwyn at December 9, 2004 11:07 AM

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