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...articulate e-mails that I answered, directly and indirectly, in four subsequent TOFs. A column suggesting that Cal Ripken?s 16-year playing streak didn?t entitle him to hero status stoked another couple hundred comments, most of them dismissive. Last month?s piece on the liberal media?s contempt for Mel Gibson and his Jesus movie provoked a heavenly host of e-mails - more than 400 in the first three days - from people who, glory be, agreed with me. I try to answer every e-mail, but was overwhelmed, in both senses, by the Mel-strom in response...
...lost their lives, and the death toll is still climbing, with new deaths reported every day. Almost $200 billion have been spent at the expense of important domestic programs, and we are currently facing the largest deficit of our generation. The American government’s unilateral efforts and contempt for international law have also distanced the U.S. from the international community. There are no signs that the world is a safer place today than it was a year ago, despite the invasion of Iraq being a part of Bush’s “war on terror...
...Warsaw and Rome should have deferred to their betters in Paris and Berlin in 2002 and 2003 and that is hardly going to win back support from the two largest nations at the heart of the E.U. in the future; in fact, it is more likely to earn their contempt. If France and Germany were to refuse to join the U.S. again and the rest of the continent remembered his rhetoric during the campaign, Kerry’s administration could find itself without friends among Spain, Italy and Poland, Europe’s medium-sized powers...
...advance of the memoir’s release, top Times editors assured staff in a brief memo, “We don’t intend to respond to Jayson or his book.” Elsewhere, visceral contempt for Blair—the sinner and his sins—has clouded most attempts to assess the memoir. And in that sense, Blair’s otherwise-sleazy title rings true. The pain he has inflicted upon journalists is visceral. This heretic has momentarily shattered the house of worship...
Like most movies, this one favors the underdog, the insurgent, the solitary hero against the powerful. Gibson's Jesus is a traditional movie rebel. He shows steely contempt for authority, chastens his mates for being slackers and argues with his Father--the God who sent him on this sacred suicide mission. This Jesus is so human he almost forgets he's divine. The grotesque pain he endures in his last 12 hours nearly blinds him to his task of redeeming mankind by dying for it. His memories are not those of a distant godhead but of his youth in Nazareth...