a reminder never to blindly trust peacefulness and religious tolerance in distant regions

"Edward Gibbon, in his great book Decline and Fall, famously blamed the collapse not only on the barbarians, but on Christianity. He thought it had undermined society with its focus on another, better world."

aka ideology, claim of infallibility, maybe like today? reminds of Jesus' bible quote that the human (what regards choice of faith) is only left to say 3x "yes". -> who doesn't can be disregarded and the one who denounced him then is a "cultivated" person?

as always, one can rely on BBC's correct portayal of the EU's shortcuts:

"EU direct democracy: Cows, texts and stem cell research
The EU website offers a new way to make your feelings known. But will it prove to be effective?
The first few policy proposals have emerged from the EU's flirtation with direct democracy..."

(found via CCHR)

"Mr Schmidt had previously criticised the country's ICT curriculum.
He had said the UK was 'throwing away [its] great computing heritage' by focusing on using software rather than how it was made."

You can't deny Eduardo Saverin a visa for being a jerk - CNET, from Top Stories - Google News http://news.google.com/news?pz=1