Posted in America, Personal Notes, Society on Sep 26th, 2007
Bigotry of ANY kind makes me upset. If you believe that you are better than ANY human being, you are a bigot.
I know that this sounds like a pretty harsh rule, and it is - partly because it’s a rule that accuses us all. We are all, in some way, bigots.
There is something inside of us [...]
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Posted in America, Europe, History, Hitler, Iran on Sep 21st, 2007
I saw the movie Pi this week. It is an incredibly moving, and disturbing, movie. It was filmed in black and white - in grainy, high contrast. They used obsolete PCs, and they glued old circuit boards together and called it a mainframe. It was seriously low budget. It was about good and evil, obsession and [...]
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Now, let me get something straight here. I’m a little confused.
The Sarkozy government wants the rest of Europe to SCALE BACK on its involvement with Iran?
I hope that you don’t mind my incredulity, but isn’t that a bit tepid?
I’ve been racking my brain to find a suitable metaphor, and I think that I’ve hit on [...]
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Posted in Personal Notes on Sep 18th, 2007
So, what are we to make of all this gloom and doom?
Well, it was a miracle that Israel survived the 1948 War of Independence. It was a miracle that Israel survived the 1967 Six Day War. It was a miracle that Israel survived the 1973 Yom Kippur War. And, with all the intelligence that we [...]
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Posted in America, Iran, War fighting on Sep 17th, 2007
The Doomsday piece that I wrote on Thursday night was one of the most difficult that I have ever written. It required a lot of research, which is what you would expect of a piece like that. But, the truly hardest part was the knowledge that this scenario was all too real.
When I finished, I [...]
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