Fighting Them There

So far this year, 63 Americans have been charged with terrorist acts. I thought Bush and Cheney told us we were fighting them there so we wouldn't have to fight them here. So much for that theory. The reality is that fighting them there is a recruiting tool for terrorism here.

Burn, Baby, Burn

To the pastor who wants to burn the Quran: Why not burn the Christian Bible, the Torah, the LDS Bible, the Bhagavad Gita, and all the other religious texts that criminals have used as justification for war, murder, rape, genital mutilation, slavery, subjugation, ethnic cleansing, and terror? Isn't it time in the evolution of humanity to abandon the tribal behavior of our ancestors and realize that we are in the end one tribe on this spaceship Earth? Let's put aside the superstition and magical thinking of religion and begin using rational thought to guide us into the future.