Jan 22 2011
Walid Jumblatt: Lebanon’s kingmaker By Lamis Andoni Last Modified: 22 Jan 2011 15:10 GMT +++ Walid Jumblatt, the leader of Lebanon’s 300,000-strong Druze community, has thrown his weight behind Hezbollah and Syria in the political showdown with the US-backed March 14 alliance that is brewing in Beirut. Jumblatt leads a bloc of 11 parliamentarians and …
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Jan 17 2011
This is the excellent post-Christmas sermon, titled “Eight Days Later” (taken from Luke 2: 21-40), that Reverend Rich Lang preached on Sunday, December 26, 2010, to his Trinity United Methodist Church in Seattle, Washington. – Monsieur d’Nalgar Have you ever had to pick someone up that you don’t know? They give you a description of what they look …
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Jan 16 2011
I was scanning through Al Jazeera’s timeline of the “unrest” in Tunisia: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/spotlight/tunisia/2011/01/201114142223827361.html …and was struck by the differences between how others around the world take a stand as compared to we self-centered, it’s-all-about-us Americans. Back on December 17, Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire after the police confiscated the fruit and vegetables he was …
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Jan 09 2011
“O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge, For I wish to be purged of an urge.” – Ogden Nash, from “So Does Everybody Else, Only Not So Much” Sweet, sweet surrender to a rising, raging reflex against the inanity of these pretentious, portentous times, these zany …
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Jan 07 2011
Another letter to the editor, titled “Force creeping into America,” in today’s Sentinel Record, from a reliably regular hater of all things Muslim… Monsieur d’Nalgar Dear editor: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right …
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Jan 04 2011
…and wishing calamity on her unrepentant naysayers (who are legion), our new mayor speaks in this letter to the editor, titled “Thoughts on ‘tolerance’” (today’s Sentinel Record, page 8): Dear editor: In recent days, I have been reminded (due to the intolerance of those who beat the drum of “tolerance”) of two famous quotes. The first …
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Jan 02 2011
Arkansas is nicknamed “The Natural State.” We have deer and fox (and possums, raccoons, eagles, buzzards, etc.) who walk or fly by our home nearly every day. But the state of our state is most unnatural on this, the second day of 2011, especially after reading today’s local newspaper. Consider, for example, these two AP stories which appeared in the …
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