Feb 20 2011
A diet too-long confined to nothing but the thin soup of Fox News has unfortunate consequences. Among them is acute cognitive indigestion when cherished beliefs are challenged by contrary points of view. Such were the symptoms that manifested themselves yesterday. [Jane], a relative newcomer to an ongoing email discussion of Middle Eastern realities (between ex-expats who once lived “over there”), has …
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Feb 20 2011
“The Moo-slims are coming! The Moo-slims are coming!” I normally reserve the photo below for Glenn Beck’s chalk-talk wackadoodlery, but today’s editorial by “motivational consultant” Jim Davidson is an occasion for making an exception. Here in the Natural State of hyper-fertility, where Quiverfull advocates like Jim Bob Duggar and his reality show puppy-mill family are desperately cranking out …
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Feb 19 2011
These are secular popular revolts – yet everyone is blaming religion By Robert Fisk, Sunday, 20 February 2011 Mubarak claimed that Islamists were behind the Egyptian revolution. Ben Ali said the same in Tunisia. King Abdullah of Jordan sees a dark and sinister hand – al-Qa’ida’s hand, the Muslim Brotherhood’s hand, an Islamist hand – …
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Feb 19 2011
Note: Raouf is a dear friend. It is very likely our paths crossed in Lebanon, in the early 1960s. We reconnected, after more than 30 years, on the eve of my son’s college education at the same institution where Dr. Halaby now professes… – Monsieur d’Nalgar Mahfouz’s Prophesy By Raouf J. Halaby, February 15, 2011 … During …
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Feb 19 2011
“Iranium” or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the “Military Option” By Eli Clifton and Ali Gharib 26 January 2011, 2:47 The Israeli filmmakers who brought you Obsession and The Third Jihad are at it again. In just a week, they’re set to launch their new documentary, Iranium, an hour-long look at the …
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Feb 16 2011
Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind By Carl Sandburg, 1920 “The past is a bucket of ashes.” . . . . . . . . . . 1 The woman named To-morrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time and does her hair the way she wants it and fastens …
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Feb 16 2011
Warning: This post contains language that may be offensive to some readers. Not as offensive as the violation of women described herein, but nevertheless, consider yourselves warned… – Monsieur d’Nalgar … Lara Logan assaulted in Egypt By Jill, on 2.16.2011 … CBS Journalist Lara Logan was physically and sexually assaulted in Egypt this week (trigger …
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