Adgita Diaries

November 2004



Eternal Life of Religion

Monday, 29 November 2004 12:10 A GMT-04
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks writes that with regard to religion, "secularization is the exception, not the rule". Sacks, a European, seems unaware that American governance over the course of the previous fours years has been assumed by religious far righ

Casualities of Faith

Tuesday, 23 November 2004 10:45 P GMT-04
The casualities of faith in political and cultural wars are not martyers as we are led to believe but all of us swept up in the mad intoxication of a national propaganda that creates a reality divorced from truth. Here applies Santyana's dictum that

Re-Think the Future

Tuesday, 23 November 2004 10:43 P GMT-04
Dear Diary, The apologists and spin meisters are in ecstasy; on the one hand polishing divinity and a halo of gravitas for Bush and with the other dismantling the Democratic party. Where is de Toqueville when we need him? He might have observed that

Mandate-Schmandate..

Tuesday, 23 November 2004 10:40 P GMT-04
Dear Diary, Political pundits, commentators and media talking heads are astonished that a huge percentage of voters listed "moral values" as the single concern in their voting selection. Rightly so, this event demands our full attention because it d

The Bushies...

Monday, 22 November 2004 5:40 A GMT-04
Dear Editor, Whoa! Before the talking heads, media and assorted punditocracy move optimistically past the road kill of recent politics and bury us alive in pre-inaugural puff pieces, some of us are still trying to figure out the moral values 'thing.

Mothers who eat their babies:Georgie-Porgie

Friday, 19 November 2004 7:59 P GMT-04
"I don't give a good goddamn if you want to be a cheerleader. Your father and I have decided you are going to play sports, like all the other little boys, mister sissy britches. Now get your hands off of your damned hips, you little pansy, and f

President Bush Wins

Wednesday, 17 November 2004 7:59 P GMT-04
Us real Americans have elected George Bush, a savior of our country, to the Presidency. Hallelujah! Moral values will once again light His shining path to glory for the USA. Enough of those whiny, loser liberals--Governor Schwarzenegger of Califor

59 Million Bigoted Americans Re-elect Bush

Wednesday, 17 November 2004 5:37 A GMT-04
The apologists and spin meisters are in ecstasy; on the one hand polishing divinity and a halo of gravitas for Bush and with the other dismantling the Democratic party. Where is de Toqueville when we need him? He might have observed that America i

The Homophobic Party

Wednesday, 17 November 2004 5:33 A GMT-04
RE: The Homophobic Party Debra J. Saunders The San Francisco Chronicle'Wrong Way' Saunders has done it again. Saunders' only claim to fameis that she can roll up hill with both feet in her mouth.Saunders with her usual contrary and sophist ambiguit

Post Election

Wednesday, 3 November 2004 7:59 P GMT-04
Millions of hearts are flying the flag at half mast this November 3 as the country is delivered into the hands of Bush and Co. for another four years . The divide in this country has never been greater. The great mid west with its agricultural welfar