All Dogs Go to Heaven

I’ve given Toulouse LeTrek the COOL Travel Cat lots of blog-time lately. It’s only fair that I give some time to dogs, like Oli. And this little tidbit I came across… So, I’d like to share with you this interesting exchange (Thanks, Cathy!):

On his cool blog, Father Joe contemplates this possibility:

“C.S. Lewis remarked that canine loyalty and affection oftentimes put human fidelity and friendship to shame. Because of this he thought that maybe dogs would be allowed to join their [human companions] in heaven. Critics contend that this is just another instance of over-blown English sentimentality. In any case, there is a growing consensus that the outer circle of hell is patrolled by cats.”

Let’s see what Toulouse has to say about that!

Evoking Hitler

In a recent NewsWeek article (August 24, 2009) entitled "Hitler and Health Care Don't Mix" Jon Meacham suggested that "playing the Nazi card is a bipartisan sin." Citing Churchill, Chicago Mayor Daley and Gloria Steinem, Meacham warns that "deploying Nazi imagery as a matter of course diminishes one of humankind's most potent lessons of its meaning and its power." He suggests that "we are in danger of turning evil itself into a triviality when we draw on the images of Hitler's Germany to make political points in debates that are in no way comparable to the terrors of Nazism." But how does one determine what political points are or are not comparable? With the subject of President Obama's health-care plan being openly compared to Hitler's Fascist policies (see Rush Limbaugh's particular vivid diatribe), Meacham suggests that "it seems reasonable to suggest a moratorium on the deployment of Third Reich imagery and language in domestic political conflicts that, while important, fall immesurably short of Hitler's territorial ambitions and his Final Solution."

I strongly disagree.