Sep 11 2007
A poem for 9-11 By Emmanuel Ortiz, September 11, 2002 Before I begin this poem, I’d like to ask you to join me in a moment of silence in honor of those who died in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001. I would also like to ask you to …
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Sep 08 2007
YaLibnanTV (websites www.yalibnan.com/ and www.iloubnan.info/-English) has this disturbing bit: If you would like to know if you are Phoenician and interested in knowing your lineage, then please visit The Genographic Projects’ website to contribute DNA… As an American mongrel with mixtures of English, German, Irish, Cherokee, Pawnee, and God-only-knows what else, when I read/hear about …
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Sep 06 2007
It was too good to be true… I found out that the short curved section in the middle of the Trans-Siberian Highway is just an urban legend, probably based on a similar tale about the Moscow-Saint Petersburg Railway. Here’s the real story: Nicholas I is involved in a common misconception about the railroad from Moscow …
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Sep 04 2007
Would you please… …just SHUUUT UP for a few minutes and let the other people on your show talk? Last week was really bad. You had the two females sitting across from you — one was a famous blogger now moved on to Time Magazine — but we rarely heard anything they had to say because …
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Aug 28 2007
I made kefta tonight! Sure brought back memories… We went to the farmer’s market Saturday morning and I bought a pound of ground lamb from a man who has a farm on Petit Jean Mountain. He told me most American farmers raise a different kind of lamb, but that his was the same kind I …
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Aug 26 2007
Europeans, and perhaps most Americans along the two coasts, have been more or less secular for so long that they probably can’t understand the depth or political clout of the religious mythology surrounding Israel. It has completely trumped rational thought. It is bad theology and it’s definitely bad foreign policy, but this bizarre love affair …
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Aug 24 2007
Dear editor, There is a frenzy of flummery about Islam in this newspaper, on radio and television, and even from pulpits across America. I suspect most of it comes from people who never actually met a Muslim. We Americans used to be a people who challenged ignorance and prejudice, but perhaps that noble sentiment died …
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