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POPSHead in the stars; feet in blood The cathedrals and the auto-da-fe, universalism and slavery, the marvels of Baroque art and the Inquisition, Scientific reason and the witch trials, progress and total war, democracy and bureaucracy, the dream of brotherhood and the gulags, Beethoven and Auschwitz, Beethoven in Auschwitz. That's Europe: its head in the stars; its feet in blood. Elie Barnavi
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POPSThe Silly Party P.S. If you’re not a U.S. citizen, please feel free to close your eyes and vote metaphysically.
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POPSGOP yanks Michele Bachman's funding House incumbent (R) from MN said Obama was "anti-American" and advocated a McCarthyist media inquisition into how many members of Congress are anti- American. House Republicans yanked her support, canceled her TV ads. She was a shoo-in; now the race is close. Funds pouring in to her opponent.
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POPSPlease Keep It Up Are you feeling the love? Are you realizing you nominated an empty suit who can read a teleprompter but can't handle anything else? Is the sweat trickling down your back? Keep it going Stormtroothers
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POPSDawkin I, unlike the majority of ordinary people ,have read much of Professor Dawkins thought provoking thesis. With rare clarity, I can also understand why the religious masses shiver at his observations. What Dawkins has made me do is stop looking for answers in the mythical heavens, but within the hearts and aspirations of Man. The true question is surely what is GOOD and what is EVIL? Good is easy to define; the music of Mozart, the words of Shakespeare and Goethe, the actions of the Red Cross and its’ workers. Evil is that which brainwashes children into beliefs that have no substance, blind obedience to mystical books written by genius writers over two millennia ago, and not allowing children to grow with the human instinct of inquisition. I have no doubt that if we do not challenge the evil amongst us, humanity will fail
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POPSCan you Say Reparations? When are the vaunted Europeans gonna apologize for their wrongs (inquisition, invasions of Africa) ... or is that just for American politicians and "aggrieved" folks to fret over?
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POPSThe Last Supper??? Stumbled Upon this blog site and loved the reworking of Da Vinci's Magnum Opus. No disrespect to anyone but look at it in the light of Pop Culture as many of the various artists did. Da Vinci (and other Artists of the Renaissance) were painting the Pop Culture of their day when there was an Inquisition or three going on, the Protestant Reformation, the Age of Exploration and the Enlightenment... OK, Popeye is no Christ but it is interesting, n'est ce pas?
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POPSCreationist Shows His Stuff Here's a pretty typical tirade by a fundamentalist Creationist that pretty much touches on all the points that Creationists get wrong all the time. About the only point he makes is that he's pretty ignorant about science and adheres to the talking points of the conservative right. My question is how many of these proselytizers will have to be proven wrong before they're eventually shamed into admitting that they've been lied to. The sad part is that many certainly have children who are also subjected to these ignorant views thus the ignorance is allowed to be passed along generational lines.
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POPSThat Wacky Millennium Part VI (1492 - 1512) Many things were happening here at the beginning of the Age of Discovery. Columbus bumps into America and thinks it is Asia (at this point of time referred to as "India") Copernicus has a small disagreement with the Catholic Church (they call these things "heresies.") and Inquisition is torturing any suspected heretic or witch they can find... Makes you kind of glad you missed those days, right?
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POPSThat Wacky Millennium Part V (1450 - 1492) The Inquisition! Here we Go! The Inquisition, What a Show! New Factoid: Isabella appointed Torquemada head of the Spanish Inquisition! That was one busy lady! Supporting Columbus, Marrying Ferdinand, appointing an Inquisitor General, yet she still has time to oust the Muslims from Spain and wait until Part VI!
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POPSThat Wacky Millennium! Part II (1206-1258) The Golden Horde, the Magna Carta, the Inquisition (best money-making scheme in history!) and Bacon develops gunpowder (first case of fried Bacon?) Makes you all wish we lived then! Well, maybe not.
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POPSWill We Murder & Martyr hose We Tortured? We tortured the chief 9/11 suspects we captured. Even the White House admits to those facts now, although they try to spin waternboarding as not torture. The question now is will we murder them as well? That's what capital punbishment is to most of the world whose opinion matters most to us. We will make them martyrs to those we don't want to turn into more terrorists? These suspects aren't playing reverse psychology. They know the Bush administration better than most of us. They know death awaits them and they ask for it to mock us and to make themselves great martyrs who inspire others to do likewise against the US. That will be their revenge. We should put them in prison for the rest of their lives and let them become anonymous, people whose act of terrorism brought them no glory, only a lifetime of sweeping a prison yard.
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POPSTop 10 Most Evil Women The List is well thought out and reasoned. The historical perspective of all but the late 20th Century killers (Beverly Allitt - #7 and Katherine Knight - #2) has stood the test of time regardless of Holocaust deniers and Historical revisionists. A perusal of the comments on this page are an amazing look into or own collective psyche as people asked "Why not...?" on so many from Aileen Wournos to Madeline Albright! A sew wanted their ex-wives on the list! U dud bit clip much of the sections on the two Nazi women or Katherine Knight so I would not have to mark it as mature. It is a fascinating, yet disturbing read and the honorable mentions of Queen Elizabeth I and Lizzie Borden are appropriate.
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POPSCrouching in a corner, covered with a sheet for hours - tragic! Your tax dollars at work: Most evidence against so-called "20th hijacker" comes from torture-induced statements. He appears to have lost his mind at the hands of his torturers; no case against him has ever been made; his internment continues indefinitely. It's the Spanish inquisition, by medieval American government. We'll never know if he's guilty or not, just that he was hurt badly enough to confess before he became too crushed to face trial. This is as completely criminal as 9/11 itself.
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POPSTODAY IN ROTTEN HISTORY Jan 25 1980 Beatle Paul McCartney is deported from Japan for possession of nearly a half pound of marijuana. It is Paul's third pot bust and his second deportation, an earlier one occurring in Germany 20 years previously after setting fire to a condom.
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POPSWho are the REAL Christians around here? "We are living in the 21st century after all. Who would use the name of the Christian God to justify mass killing? A majority of modern day American Christians, that's who. Perhaps the argument used against Muslims should be applied to Christians instead. Their religion has been hijacked by fundamentalist fanatics while the non-fanatics remain silent. The term clash of civilizations is definitely a misnomer. There can be no clash unless both sides are in fact civilized. Any assertion of American civilization is clearly open to question." ... By Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report., AlterNet
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POPS"Clash of civilizations" - a misnomer Christians perpetrated the crusades, the inquisition, the slave trade and imperial adventures too numerous to mention. It may be comforting to pat ourselves on the back and consign those behaviors to past centuries. We are living in the 21st century after all. Who would use the name of the Christian God to justify mass killing? A majority of modern day American Christians, that's who. Perhaps the argument used against Muslims should be applied to Christians instead. Their religion has been hijacked by fundamentalist fanatics while the non-fanatics remain silent. The term clash of civilizations is definitely a misnomer. There can be no clash unless both sides are in fact civilized. Any assertion of American civilization is clearly open to question. (L.c.)
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