Number of America’s nine “Founding Fathers” who denied the divinity of Jesus: 7
Number of U.S. public-school districts that have adopted a class in which the Bible is the primary textbook: 301
Tons of CO2 emissions that would be replaced each year by a proposed windmill project on Long Island: 235,000
Tons produced each year by a single jumbo jet making a round-trip trans-Atlantic flight daily: 210,000
Average percentage of the U.K. population that Britons believe to be immigrants: 21
Actual percentage: 8
Offering truth beyond the mere black and white.
"Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will." -- Antonio Gramsci
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -- Bertrand Russell
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
From Harper's Index (July):
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