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Saturday, February 28, 2004
Snark attack
According to London's Observer, a report commissioned for the Pentagon says climate change "should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a U.S. national security concern." Scenarios projected include food shortages, rioting and "warfare that defines human life" beginning somewhere around the year 2020. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is not a fan of scenario planning -- so someone had better spin this tale in a more positive light.
-- Mark Trahant
Education Secretary Rod Paige calls the National Education Association a "terrorist organization," apologizes and goes about his business. Do you think the same calm would have ensued in the Clinton years if, say, Janet Reno had described the NRA as a terrorist group?
-- Joe Copeland
Crime is all in how you define it. There's no way the United Nations is going to think bugging its building is OK. This is the organization that demands absolute immunity from the law, even when its diplomats and their teenagers rack up oodles of parking tickets and -- much, much worse -- commit vehicular homicide.
-- Kimberly Mills
Much has been made of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," the story of the last 12 hours of Jesus' life on Earth and, of course, his horrific death on the cross. But unless he does the sequel "The Resurrection of Christ," it could be argued that Gibson -- and many Christians cheering his work -- will have missed the real story.
-- Thomas Shapley
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