Gongol.com Archives: September 2006
Brian Gongol


September 16, 2006

Socialism Doesn't Work Culver plan for state venture-capital fund
Socialist populism is socialism nonetheless and has to be rejected

Threats and Hazards Churches attacked over Pope's comments about Islam
In a dense academic speech in Germany, the Pope intended to call for an unconventional integration of faith with scientific rationalism. But it all seems to have been derailed by some ancillary comments he made regarding Islam's use of violence in its self-propagation -- which makes the reactionary Islamic violence in response to his comments a little sickeningly ironic.

Broadcasting GM, other sponsors withdraw from "Survivor"
Reasonable objections over the ridiculous divide-teams-by-race thing

News "Your friend and brother (and prosecutor) ... Bill Gibson."
Tennessee district attorney gets himself into hot water by writing letters to a convict he was in the process of prosecuting. The letters apparently included voluminous references to God and religion...ethics and justice notwithstanding.