The Atlantic kindly invited me to guest blog this week, and I was thrilled to accept. Here’s a roundup of the pieces I’ve written so far:
- One Giant Creep For Mankind
41 years ago today, Neil Armstrong cracked open the hatch of the Eagle lunar module and took one giant leap for mankind. Then mankind rolled up its sleeves, picked up a shovel, and dug in. That was quite enough adventure, thank you very much.
UPDATE: Spotlighted on The American Prospect. Thanks!
- The Company He Keeps
Gallup reports that President Obama’s job approval average during his sixth quarter in office ranks on the bottom half of chief executives to date.
- Somalia’s Spreading Cancer
As it turns out, those three pirates snuffed by SEALs last year are not only bad guys in Somalia. Though it’s made few headlines of late, life in the post-apocalyptic African state has gone from bad to worse.
- Clinton Calls Out Burma
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke out this morning against the Burmese government, which is delaying elections announced for this year. Because the military junta has yet to announce a date, Secretary Clinton says, they risk “raising questions about their commitment to such elections.” One would, of course, think being a military junta would have raised an eyebrow in the first place.
- Gingrich Denounces Ground Zero Mosque
Yesterday evening, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich announced on his website opposition to the Park51 community center — the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque.” According to Gingrich, “There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia. The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.”
- Chad Refuses to Arrest Bashir
This week, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is in Chad for a regional summit, and human rights groups are pleading for his arrest. Bashir presided over the conflict in Darfur, where an estimated 300,000 people were killed and over 2.5 million displaced. He is wanted by the International Criminal Court for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.
I enjoyed your articles at The Atlantic — they were insightful, well-rounded and correctly punctuated. These are rare things on the internet and so I salute you for your efforts.
I mention this HERE and not THERE because The Atlantic readerships scares me. There are some very angry humour-impaired people over there. And now I shall continue on with my google quest to discover HOW many Christian churches there are in Saudi Arabia? Afterward I will attempt to contemplate why this is relevant to the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero? I think I already know the answer to the latter. It begins with “Fuck” and ends “All.”