The D-66 party objected to Verdonk’s handling of the issue, and walked out.… Read the rest
Hitchens on Ma Teresa
Jul 1st, 2006 12:12 am | By Ophelia BensonIt has come to my attention that this business of ‘Mother’ Teresa’s being a horrible nightmare instead of the tiny little saint she’s cracked up to be is not common knowledge. Well I knew that, but it’s not common knowledge even among the kind of warped, twisted people who read B&W; that I didn’t know. I should have realized though. It’s meme stuff. The phrase ‘Mother Teresa’ is a kind of pop culture synonym for self-sacrificing altruism, and the corrections of that illusion get drowned out as a result. So let’s get to work and spread the counter-meme, shall we? She was a horror.
Christopher Hitchens wrote the book on the subject in 1995. He gives some highlights in this … Read the rest