Feb 20 2011

Reactive dissonance

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.…  [more]

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Feb 20 2011

Loopy

“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…  [more]

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Feb 19 2011

Gaddafi is a nutter

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…  [more]

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Feb 19 2011

Mahfouz’s prophesy

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.…  [more]

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Feb 19 2011

Iranium

“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…  [more]

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Feb 16 2011

American exceptionalism

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…  [more]

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Feb 16 2011

The rape of Lara Logan

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…  [more]

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