The faith-based defense would be nondenominational and designed to protect Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Wiccans, as well as Christians, officials said. President Bush also authorized the creation of an Office of Faith-Based Research and Development, and named evangelist James Dobson to head the project. Saddam Hussein isn't working on plutonium, he is trying to develop seven-headed dragons and gigantic armored locusts. Although ignorance and lack of education are often linked to beliefs in supernatural claims, the information revolution is now often cast as the villain. The problem with faith-based funding, writes Bart Kosko in the Los Angeles Times , is faith itself .
Authors always go on about the writer's mission to resist editorial guidance at every turn.
Sympathy for writers would evaporate. The strongest voices, judging by their novels, are apparently so unaroused by the whole enterprise of writing and reading that they've taken their cocktails and slipped off to the balcony to meditate. Perhaps they're convinced that awarding each other prizes will be enough to keep the party going. I doubt it. Washington Post Book World review of Exiting Nirvana , a memoir by Paul Park's mother.