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There is a lot of talk of torture in the air as America comes to terms with with the legacy of the past eight years. There is also a plethora of tortured euphemisms at work as people attempt to deflect responsibility for what was done to other human beings for the sake of our own peace and security. "Enhanced interrogation methods", for example, sounds like a harmless upgrade to the normal

If you are one of the five people in the world who haven't yet seen British singing sensation Susan Boyle on Youtube then go take a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxPZh4AnWyk. The beetle-browed, most unlikely chanteuse from Blackburn, Scotland (not Lancashire), first wowed audiences on the Britain's Got Talent TV show, including irascible professional sceptic Simon Cowell, last week when

It is often suggested that economic crises lead people to more spiritual reflection (take the coins from the eyes of the corpse and suddenly it sees again), so it was interesting to read the cover story in this week's Newsweek magazine (April 13, 2009: http://www.newsweek.com/id/192583) about the declining state of religion in America. Under the banner "The End of Christian America", the article

I recently received an email from the new Executive Director of the Democratic Party, Jen O'Malley Dillon, offering me a free T-Shirt if I came up with a catchy billboard slogan to use against Rush Limbaugh, the conservative talk show blowhard who has become the self-appointed voice of the Republican Party, and who is publicly calling for President Obama to fail in his attempts to revive the

More thoughts following on from my last blog about the need for a silent center in our lives.

According to the Legal Times blog (http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/02/justice-alito-imagines-john-lennon.html) Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito quoted at length from John Lennon's Imagine in a recent ruling (Pleasant Grove City, Utah v. Summum) which "redefined monuments placed on public land --