Bush's latest job approval (or lack of) numbers

Wow... a little late but I suspect American's may be coming to their senses.

Chomsky on alterity

One of the few positive secondary effects about the US/the west fighting wars of attrition in Iraq and Afghanistan are the emerging alternatives to the Washington consensus apparatus and mechanisms that have so bankrupted the developing world (to varying degrees and at various points in time). These truly regional bank initiatives will hopefully (in 10-15 years) be more needs-responsive and impact-positive in terms of technical assistance and financing of poverty alleviation efforts. This is of course not a given and not to say all that the IFIs are doing is bad but it does provide much needed alternatives, something free markets are all about, right? It may even spur much needed reform in best practices within IFIs and further growth in robust civil societies.

Haggardly

The level of self-delusion and self-loathing here provides an interesting case study in a very screwed-up man (and movement)...

"Jesus is starting to put me back together. I have spent so much time in repentance, brokenness, hurt and sorrow for the things I've done and the negative impact my actions have had on others. That sadness continues as my family and I, along with so many others, go through the painful consequences of my actions. Jesus and his followers, though, have saved my life. As part of New Life's efforts to help me, they sent Gayle and me to Phoenix for a three-week psychological intensive that gave us three years worth of analysis and treatment. We all wanted to know why I developed such incongruity in my life. Thankfully, with the tools we gained there, along with the powerful way God has been illuminating His Word and the Holy Spirit has been convicting and healing me, we now have growing understanding which is giving me some hope for a future.

Gayle and I have decided to move from Colorado Springs to go back to school. We love Colorado Springs so much, and will always regard the believer's at New Life Church as family, but we have to go in order to let the church determine its own course and for us to retrain. We haven't decided where we are moving but so far have been offered two places, one in Iowa and one in Missouri. We are both planning on getting our masters in Psychology so we can work together serving others the rest of our lives. Since we are taking our classes on-line, we can live anywhere that's affordable. Then we'll travel to location for short in-class requirements.

Thank you so much for your love and prayers during this horrific time of transition in our lives. For the last three months, I've not been communicative because I've been paralyzed by shame. But as God and people like you forgive me, the sun is starting to rise in my life. I look forward to communicating with greater ease."

God bless,

Ted Haggard
"We are Easter People."

gay hindu

the complexity and diversity of thought around a host of issues including homos and a preceding tolerance for dissent is why I probably feel more at home within hindu thought than the christian variety; accepting that many varients and varietals have been co-opted into the pantheon of what is considered hinduism.