Jan 16 2011

Pity the nation

The brutal truth about Tunisia

By Robert Fisk Monday, 17 January 2011 The end of the age of dictators in the Arab world? Certainly they are shaking in their boots across the Middle East, the well-heeled sheiks and emirs, and…  [more]

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Jan 16 2011

Burning man

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…  [more]

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Jan 16 2011

Connecting dots

Two days ago, Chris asked the following:  “Any good answers to the Hariri killing and the switch in emphasis to Hezbollah?  Or to what Hillary’s doing in Yemen?” Re. Hillary Clinton’s trip to Yemen, I’ve seen/read little so far except…  [more]

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Jan 09 2011

When dead birds fly

“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…  [more]

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Jan 07 2011

The Mooslims are coming!!

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,…  [more]

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Jan 04 2011

Taking names…

…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…  [more]

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Jan 02 2011

You can’t make this stuff up

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 …  [more]

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