Month: July 2005

Justice O’Connor is retiring. You can read about some of her possible replacements here.

Expect a lot of apocalyptic language from both sides telling us that the fate of our nation hinges on who’s appointed to replace her.

I certainly have my opinions and preferences on these matters, but I also think it’s helpful to recall words like these:

Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. When his breath departs he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them,who keeps faith forever; who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry.

(Ps. 146:3-7)

Here’s an article denouncing “communist chic” (“CCCP” t-shirts, a vodka bar chain called “the Soviet,” even a Stalin theme park in Lithuania!).

We’re all familiar with the ubiquitous Che Guevera t-shirts. Yesterday I saw one that was new to me – a Ho Chi Minh t-shirt (I might be a little afraid of running into a disgruntled Vietnam vet wearing that one).

I don’t get it – what’s the fascination?