Strange Bedfellows

You can live with each other, you just can’t be married.   “And who knows which is which, and who is who” —Pink Floyd   The long evolutionary heritage of religion has always been inextricably linked with the forms and functions of the evolution of government.  Long ago, the early tribal shamans were the go-to guys for all the practices …

The Difference Between Palin and Bush?

Lipstick. To the apocalypse lobby, Sarah Palin is everything that they had hoped George W. Bush would be; and more. Making what a lot of fundies consider a downpayment on the rapture, Bush told Palestinian leaders at the White House in June ’03 that he was instructed by God to remove Saddam from power: “God told me, ‘George, go and …