Christopher Hitchens investigates whether Mother Teresa of Calcutta deserves her saintly image. Probes her campaigns against contraception and abortion and her relationships with right-wing political leaders.
Daily Archives: 09.04.2016
READING: “Luddites Rejoice! Americans Still Prefer Printed Books” / PBS Newshour ☮
The printed book remains the popular choice for readers over their digital counterparts, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center.
In the past year, 65 percent of U.S. adults surveyed said they read a book in its printed form. 28 percent of people said they read an e-book over the same period, while 14 percent said they listened to an audio book.
BRITISH POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Pie does God!” / Jonathan Pie ☮
Religion and politics: Two similarly emotive subjects given the Pie treatment.
MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: “How Much Can We Reduce Military Spending Before it’s a Risk?” / The Ring of Fire / Farron Cousins ☮
Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses the enormous amount of money the United States puts into military spending every year.
CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN BIGOTRY: “Colin Kaepernick and the National Anthem” / New York Daily News / Liberal Redneck / Comedian, Trae Crowder ☮
The Daily News’ Hillbilly-in-Chief Trae Crowder is ready for some football and not the “politically divisive hot potato” that is the Colin Kaepernick national anthem situation, which ironically has offended people who have spent “the better part of a year complaining about how not great America is.”
“I do agree with Kaepernick about racism in America, but I don’t agree with how he chose to express it, but that’s all it was. A peaceful expression of his opinion. So can we please stop with the death threats and the racial slurs and just get back to what really matters… watching gigantic, freakish men in arbitrarily significant uniforms give each other gradual brain damage for the pursuit of our entertainment?”