"From the darkness, sleeping light." Formerly luminus dormiens. Lux pacis, light of peace.

Quote: "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." --Bill Watterson, cartoonist, Calvin and Hobbes

20031211

Aljazeera.Net English - Home Page

I can finally access the Al-Jazeera news site. I forgot about it, so I don't know when it came back online. Email me if you know. I've always been accepting of other people's views on many different subjects, even if I disagree with them. Not that I necessarily disagree with Al-Jazeera, but I haven't had the chance to look at it because someone had the gall to attack the site through Denial-of-Service during the Iraq Occupation waaayyy back in March, thus preventing anybody from seeing it. Such DOS attacks is counterproductive and stupid.

As Joel Stein said succinctly, the mark of a true liberal is the ability to accept shades of gray. Sometimes the so-called "Left" falls such victim to absolutism just as the "Right" does, each believing themselves to be on the side of good and others on the side of evil. Ambiguity is a fact (of life).

Excerpts of Anti-Gay, by Mark Simpson, reveals a very fascinating critique of the sub-culture, i.e. queer, that offends its fundamentalists, such as the empty life, the drugs, and so forth. Give credits to plasticbag.org for the information.

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