ljplicease | More Economist Quotes

At work I have a sick server. DoubleThink has been causing me all kinds of unforeseen grief. I feel unusually focused at work after my pleasant vacation in the wonderful state of Maine. I was reading The Economist today and wanted to record these statements for posterity:

Hypocrisy; neighborly

The second hypocrisy concerns migration. Some 10m migrants work illegally in America; at least 1m more arrive each year. They come because employers need them. Yet many risk death to get there. Terrorists, too, could make use of the people smuggling networks [1]. Senators Ted Kennedy and John McCain have proposed recognising [2] the economic reality behind this issue, allowing employers to hire immigrants on temporary work permits if locals don't want the job. George Bush supports this bill, but much of his party does not, so it languishes.

The Economist 27 August 2005

Separation; church and state

Would it be too much to ask for those who would bring religion into the classroom to accept devoting an equal amount of time in Sunday sermons for the "alternative" theory of evolution?

Jud Hendelman of Montreux, Switzerland
The Economist letters page 27 August 2005

[1] Like in the Tom Clancy novel The Teeth of the Tiger, which was dreadful, btw-.

[2] UK Spelling, just so you know.