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When I was in college, about the time that the Earth’s crust cooled, there were two kinds of moviegoers at Baylor University, the world’s largest Southern Baptist institution of higher learning. There were the people who went to Woody Allen movies and the people who did not.
Naveed Haq was anything but an Islamic radical. He was a recently baptized convert to Christianity, and he expressed interest in Mormonism. His father, on the other hand, is a leader in the Muslim American community in Richland, Wash. It’s fair to say that the entire story line of a crazed Islamic radical shooting up a Jewish organization has been turned on its head.
Six shot in an apparent hate crime. One person dead. One man, antagonistic toward Jewish organizations, acting on his own.
Tomorrow afternoon, Mollie Ziegler, a journalist from Washington, D.C., will be crowned Miss America. At least that’s how she sees it.
I attended my beautiful cousin’s wedding a few weeks ago where the pastor joked that he was going to do something unorthodox and not to report him to anyone. (Yes, I groaned at that point.) Anyway, he proceeded to rewrite King David’s 23rd Psalm from first person singular to first person plural! Isn’t that so cute and meaningful? Wow, the psalm just sat there and did nothing before this Denver pastor rewrote it.
Aristotle and Plato had different conceptions of what a drunk was responsible for. Plato said the drunk was only responsible for getting drunk. Aristotle said he was responsible for getting drunk but also for whatever happened while he was inebriated. (I should note that I may have completely misremembered these views.)
Shouldn’t be long before we get the results from Tour de France winner Floyd Landis’ doping tests. The first test showed higher-than-expected levels of testosterone. As we prepare for that, it’s been interesting to see the positive coverage of the winner turn a bit negative.
Call me cynical, but I’m betting it was an automated reply and that the WP WON’T issue a correction.
The mainstream media are covering intelligent debate over religion and science. And it’s about time.
