The Bookworm Beat 1-27-15 — the illustrated edition and Open Thread
Sorry for the relative silence yesterday. Life caught up. I’ll do my mea culpa via an excellent illustrated edition, with many thinks to Caped Crusader:
Apropos this last poster, I was impressed by David Harsanyi’s point about Leftist denial re Islam:
We’ve gone from incessantly offering (appropriate) distinctions between factions of Islam to fantasizing that terrorists are a bunch of shiftless underprivileged adrenaline junkies with no particular philosophy at all. Religion is an organized collection of beliefs that makes sense of existence. Under no definition of “faith” is there a stipulation that it must be devoid of any violence.