The Cluster of Copenhagen, the chaotic and orgiastic assembly of the representatives of 192 countries plus uncountable throngs of NGO leaders and miscellaneous activists, is, as Les Gelb notes this morning over at The Daily Beast, a window into the future.  In many ways, it’s not a very nice future.
In the first two posts, I [...]

December 7 gets all the publicity; this was the “day that shall live in infamy” when Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor and the United States entered World War Two.
12/11 is not so well remembered, but that was the day that Hitler’s Germany declared war on the United States.
Historians sometimes wonder about this decision; by declaring [...]

While I was on my travels, churches all over the world started a new Christian Year with the season of Advent: the Coming.
In many churches the vestments and altar clothes shifted from green to purple.  Wreaths popped up here and there with four candles; on each of the four Sundays in Advent another candle will [...]