News to watch today (18 September 2006)

Insightful article (on American conservatives out-reproducing liberals... scary thoughts arise!) and important issue to watch (the Iran nuclear situation).

See also more on the Geneva Conventions debate (McCain stands his ground) as well as the Pope getting slammed (more) and whatnot. This comes [even] after he made an apology that seemed unlikely (to me at least); after all of that talk of him 'not making an apology' for his statement calling Islam violent in nature. Even if said apology was inadequate, when was the last time the Pope apologized? Especially to another faith. I am not one of the Islamophobics in the West (i.e. North America and Western Europe), but [I think] this whole thing is getting out of control!

By the way, I am agnostic — i.e. I find no way to know is there is a god, and think that it is impossible to know — and try to keep my opinions on 'traditional' religion balanced, as I try with all topics. Some day soon I will write up some posts on my existing philosophical views (obviously not today though).

If you want more dirt on the latest news, you can just go to Google News.

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