Overheard

Overheard somewhere recently a comment that has stuck in mind:

"We can have separation of church and state but we cannot have separation of morality and state."

Why is the U.S. repeatedly resorting to criminality in its foreign policy? Why this determination to alienate the rest of the world? Harold Pinter's Nobel Prize speech on You Tube is recommended to interested readers without qualification, hesitation or reservation.

The right to dissent is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. The obligation to dissent is enshrined in the human conscience.

Education is the only road out of the ethical swamp into which this country has descended.

All hail the teaching profession!

The U.S. military has issued a statement saying reports of more than 140 civilian deaths as a result of this past Monday/Tuesday bombing raid in Farah Province in Afghanistan are "over-exaggerated"--without referring to any facts to support the claim--and that an investigation is underway.