Would you prefer jokes? Dan Froomkin had this in the Post today.

Bush on Vice President Cheney: "I have this habit of giving out nicknames, but Dick is the only person who's given me a nickname. He calls me 'The Apprentice.'"

The Bush quote brought to mind this essay by Rev. Dr. Giles Fraser:

If God is all-powerful and all loving, how can suffering exist? The essays that are most difficult to stomach are those that seek some clever logical trick to get God off the hook, as if the cries of human suffering could be treated like a fascinating philosophical Rubik's cube in need of an ingenious solution. Such "solutions" include: the universe is set up like some cosmic Gordonstoun where suffering makes us better people. Or - without suffering the world would become some sort of toy world where nothing has moral weight. Or - (believe it or not) devils are responsible, not God. Of course, none of them work, and one has to question the moral health of those whose only concern in the face of great tragedy is to buy God some dubious alibi.