Category: Culture

A tale of two ghosts

A tall tale, by Monsieur d’Nalgar, inspired by reading this rubbish: https://levantium.com/2013/04/10/admonitions-of-sol-alinsky/   Everyone agreed afterwards that it was likely the strangest prayer meeting what ever done was. It happened during one cold winter evening at the First Tally-ho Taliban Church of Self-righteous Regurgitants, not long after they had locked and bolted the big pine doors, …

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Admonitions of Sol Alinsky

Prayer for progressives Dear editor: A compliment to Judy Gallagher for her letter to the editor recently. Judy punctured the thin gruel of character assassination practiced by our coterie of progressive writers, with grace and elegant style. Evidently there is a dearth of critical thinking about the problems of society among the ranks of those …

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Very Rare Pictures of Beirut

The following images and text were copied from a Powerpoint attachment to an email forwarded by Ray Close on4/6/2013. Enjoy this glimpse of a magical Beirut that is no more…

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So many

True costs of Iraq War whitewashed by fuzzy maths By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, Apr 5, 2013   ‘So many’, wrote TS Eliot, reflecting on the waste land left by the First World  War. “I had not thought death had undone so many.” This notion is unlikely to cross the minds of those surveying the devastation  …

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Seeds of apathy and evil that were sown

Israeli cruelty reached a point of no return in the 2008-09 Gaza war By Gideon Levy, Mar.31, 2013   She was standing there screaming, the veins in her neck seeming about to burst. “What’s happened to you − have all of you gone crazy? Who knows what he had in his house, maybe there were …

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Like selling Bibles to believers

Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens: New Atheists flirt with Islamophobia By Nathan Lean, Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 02:00 PM CDT   Richard Dawkins, the preppy septuagenarian and professional atheist whose work in the field of evolutionary biology informs his godless worldview, has always been a prickly fellow. The British scientist and former Oxford University professor has expended …

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Israel was the main issue

The Neocons Won By Gary Leupp, Weekend Edition March 29-31, 2013   Reading an assortment of commentaries (“retrospectives”) on the tenth anniversary of the U.S. war on Iraq, and onset of the horrific occupation, I find most center their discussion on the now almost universally conceded fact that the war was based on false pretexts. …

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