Double Birds

Thomas J"effers"on.  Even his name is an insult to tyrants. According to the Declaration of Independence, our own founding document, Iraqis  (and people in many other countries around the world) have every right to declare independence from the United States, and overthrow the puppet governments that we have installed.  Let's see if you put together the pieces in the same way: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed " "whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government," "when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Objec...

Nasa's Dawn spacecraft snapped this photo . It looks like space is hostile.

I like this take on Easter "What we recall at Easter is the show trial and judicial murder of Jesus of Nazareth. A mob is manipulated into calling for his death. The judge, who knows he is innocent, feebly gives in. Such things are common in the real world, to this day. The resurrection, which some of us still celebrate today, symbolises the ultimate defeat of cruel and cynical human power by a far greater force. Among other things, Easter enshrines the idea that what we do here matters somewhere else, that there is an absolute standard by which our actions are judged. Down 20 centuries, this idea has restrained the powerful. They do not like it. Never have. Never will. The worship of Christ, victim of a lynch mob and a crooked judge, is dangerously radical." Jesus is much cooler than you'd think from meeting Christians. There's also a song. Jesus inspires me to fight against the status quo.  He told the churchy people in his day, " This prostitute will go to he...