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On Dec. 4, AlterNet posted the text of Bill Moyers’ acceptance speech for the Global Environment Citizen Award presented by the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. Frightening and energizing. An excerpt:

One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress. For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a world view despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.

He refers to an article written by Glenn Scherer and published online in Grist entitled The Godly Must Be Crazy, which is also worth a read.