"Our job is not to make up anybody’s mind, but to open minds, and to make the agony of decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking."
- Fred W. Friendly (1915-1998)

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you mad."
- Aldous Huxley

"If you have ever injected truth into politics, then you have no politics."
- Will Rogers

Monday, May 6, 2013

Here Is One For "The Book"

This is a news story that seems specially designed to cause apoplectic fits among the the Christian religious zealots (or the Republican Party if you prefer).   An openly gay black man in New York with AIDS and anemia who is finishing up a four-year project to manually transcribe the King James version of the Bible!  

And...as a tribute to how low American journalism has sunk...I had to locate this story on the BBC website..... 

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