"My goal is victory in May 2005," said Jürgen Rüttgers today at the CDU state party conference in Bochum. - yet another horror scenario. First Koch threatens that he wants to become Chancellor (the Bavarian perpetual threat is still at the ready), Merkenix wants to cut pensions for singles, Möllemann wants to start his own party and Rüttgers wants to be allowed to run down NRW. All that's missing is Karl Dall running for Federal President ...
At WDR.de you can find the original article.
I'm passing along the tip about the Monitor report on Bush and religion. The report was really very interesting. Though the connections between Moon and the Bush administration (and Bush family!) are also quite noteworthy - apparently all a tangled mix of pseudo-religion, apocalyptic fantasies, and good old megalomania.
Jutta has written a few articles on the Moon sect and its connections to the Bush administration: What does the Bush family have to do with the Moon sect? and Bush appoints Josette Shiner as deputy in US foreign trade office. And then there's the strange circumstance that a very large part of the Bush administration is connected to the oil or chemical industry. At Der Rollberg you can find the original article.
An interesting article by George Lakoff about the metaphors that define this Gulf War and how these metaphors shape the depiction of the war. Language has great power. Or as George puts it: Metaphors can kill. Here you can find the original article.
The article essentially says everything that needs to be said. But as long as there are politicians who don't blame the warring parties for the outbreak of a war, but instead blame those who protested against the war and refused to participate in it, we will continue to live with diminishments and downplayings of murder and manslaughter in our language.
I found the original article on RP-Online: Wissenschaft.