Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 26th, 2006
Last week, a friend and I were in the Old City and were in the Armenian Quarter, when we saw a sign. Pasted at the entrance to St. James street was a sign describing the Massacre of the Armenians that began in 1915. Over the next eight years more than 1.5 million [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 23rd, 2006
On Monday, April 17th, at 1:35 p.m., a Palestinian bomber left me a welcome home message. Four hours later, my plane made its final approach, it’s flight path lying directly over the bloody carnage in Tel Aviv. Nine dead and twenty wounded are hard to see from a Boeing 777, so [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 16th, 2006
Things are still a bit topsy-turvy at my end of things, so I think that I’m going to defer my ‘Way of Death in Israel’ for another day. I suspect that the subject needs me to actually BE in Israel before I can write properly on [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 12th, 2006
In America, death is difficult. In fact, so difficult that dying is probably the easy part. Let me explain.
In the American way of death, we go through five vital and important steps:
FIRST – Verification: They gotta actually make sure that you ARE dead. I suspect that they poke you with [...]
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