Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Protest is as American as the Flag

My latest submission to the BackTalk section of the NWI Times:

It's AMAZING to me how many people have decided to attack a Munster man for saying that he will stop flying the American flag to protest Bush. It seems to me that well over 95% of Americans don't fly the flag. At least the man from Munster is not flying the flag for a reason. And that reason is protest...a sacred American tradition older than the flag itself.

Friday, May 20, 2005

Response to "Creationist Nuts" Everywhere

A recent submission to the Backtalk section of the NWI Times:

In response to the recent comment from the "creationism nut" who's "glad to be a nut" because "nuts fall from trees" and "...sprout and grow and produce much good fruit." Like the Bible, your comment is full of rich metaphors. And like the Bible, your comment was not meant to be taken literally. The Bible was written in an ancient time by a primitive people who were trying to explain the unexplainable. You may say, "But the Bible was inspired by God." Well, who's to say the Koran and the Baghavad Gita and (for that matter) Einstein and Darwin WEREN'T inspired by God? Evolution doesn't deny the existence of God; it just explains God's plan for creation in a less simple manner.

Monday, May 16, 2005

How to save the taxpayers' money...

A recent letter to the Times:

There's been a great deal of talk recently about the closing of military bases all over the country. The closing of these bases, it is said, will save about 5.5 billion dollars per year. Since the majority of al-Qaeda operatives captured recently were found in Afghanistan and Pakistan (not Iraq), doesn't it make sense to eliminate our presence in Iraq which has already cost the U.S. 170 billion dollars and over 1,500 American lives? Isn't the purpose of the U.S. military presence in the Middle East, after all, to fight terrorism? Or is our mission now to kill everyone who disagrees with us?