Nov 08 2010

Take Me to the River

By Sumbul Ali-Karamali, posted at HuffingtonPost.com September 3, 2010. … Hasn’t the whole notion of shariah in America gotten a bit out of control? No, it hasn’t — it’s gotten hugely, obscenely, ignorantly out of control. How many of those…  [more]

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Nov 07 2010

Be afraid!

Well, dear friends, it’s a lot worse than we thought…  I was blissfully ignorant about the threat to America until today, when an angry reader of my recent “Gristle” post challenged anyone who is not fearful of Muslims…  [more]

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Nov 04 2010

More Moore

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  • November 4, 2010

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBGQhJDlys0[/tube] [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCAe9SEH9SQ[/tube] [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1RHn1WAkbk[/tube] [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGPIlQn3NYs[/tube] [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSv5k7XmxQE[/tube] [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI86SteM2FE[/tube] [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vQSRGHJxcg[/tube] …and that’s about the sum total I can find of my songs on YouTube.  There’s probably more from Mary Black and Maura O’Connell etc., but I can’t be bothered.…  [more]

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Nov 04 2010

Cedars of Lebanon

Whoa: I found this funky-but-great version of Seamie O’Dowd, Mairtin O’Connor, and Cathal Hayden playing Cedars of Lebanon.  They are three of the greatest living folk/trad musicians in Ireland, and tour Europe a lot in this formation. [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22xDMXEo0Dw[/tube] Cedars Of …  [more]

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Nov 04 2010

On the subject of Beirut and its people…

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae2dEWoKsxA[/tube] A song called Alice in Jericho, where Lebanon/Beirut is the actual subject. The singer is Ireland’s Seamie O’Dowd. The venue is some jazz club in Australia, not sure where. Alice In Jericho Now, the natural part of a Nazarene…  [more]

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Nov 03 2010

Like a koan

Monsieur d’Nalgar’s note:  The following reaction was set in motion by the arrival of a poem/article/essay by Ange Mlinko, entitled “Letter from Beirut.”  It was published in the July/August 2010 issue of Poetry.  The photo below (©2006…  [more]

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Oct 30 2010

Dismal

Dear Friends: Below is the full text of an excellent (make that superior) speech delivered last week in Washington by Kathleen Christison to the annual meeting of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations (NCUSAR) on the subject of current…  [more]

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