There was a discussion on Christopher Hitchens on the journal of poliphilo , one of one of my LJ friends, the other day. Christopher Hitchens is one of the "new atheists", who, along with others like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins, are the atheist equivalent of Christian Fundamentalists like Fred Phelps, a kind of atheist Taliban.

I followed it with only ( Read more... )

thirdworld writes in southafrica about the anniversary of the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, and reminds me that the "new" South Africa is 17 years old.

How time flies!

And there was a time when I thought I would never see it in my lifetime.

The annus mirabilis 1989 when peace and freedom were breaking out all over. And then Saddam Hussein had to go and ( Read more... )