Archive for August, 2005

August 16, 2005

Letter on Jim Wallis

by Josh at 9:51 am

Last Friday, Salon.com ran an article called Getting Religion about Jim Wallis and the Democratic party. Of course, this topic was right up my alley, so I sent them a letter which they published. I thought the article was more than a little too hard on Wallis (which I hope was evident in [...]

August 7, 2005

Health Care – Globe Op-Ed

by Josh at 11:31 pm

Rev. Hamilton of Roxbury Presbyterian Church had an op-ed piece in the Globe today (written with Rabbi Jonah Pesner) comparing Governor Romney’s health care plan to a junky car. Barely mentioned in the article is the ballot initiative being planned by MassACT and supported by the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization, but this is clearly [...]

August 5, 2005

Oppression breeds…

by Josh at 5:39 pm

From boston.com: A Muslim fast-food restaurant in France. This is very interesting coming out of country that prides itself on its secularism. One might argue that if that if the French government didn’t spend so much energy trying to make Muslims feel unwelcome in public life, they wouldn’t need to start their own [...]

August 2, 2005

Answered email

by Josh at 4:00 pm

King Kaufman answered one of my emails in his sports column today. The topic was Rafael Palmeiro and steroids. And admittedly I was baiting Salon by comparing Palmeiro’s claim that he never “intentionally” took steroids with Karl Rove’s claim that he never “intentionally” leaked the identity of a CIA agent. King clears [...]