That John Martin

My far-too-articulate cousin has been on fire since booting up his blog only a matter of weeks ago. His most recent missive points to a Truthdig debate between Sam Harris and Chris Hedges on (such frivolous topics as) religion, politics, and the end of the world. Well worth a watch, particularly Sam’s closing statement where he invokes the good witch/bad witch defense.

There was a fantastic interview on The Daily Show last night with Zbigniew Brzezinski, a member of Carter’s administration and author of Second Chance. He was very sharp and reasonable and spoke very profoundly.

In reference to the period directly after 9/11 he said:

That was the moment of global solidarity which we then squandered by a war of choice in Iraq.

The clip is below via the increasingly excellent MotherLoad: