NOTE: THIS IS THE FIRST OF FOUR PAPERS THAT MY DAUGHTER WILL WRITE AND PRESENT AS PART OF HER BAT MITZVAH PROGRAM AT THE JCS ANN ARBOR. Introduction I chose Marc Chagall because I wanted to learn more about him, and because he is a Jewish artist and I am interested in art too. I thought that choosing him would be an inspiration for
I'm a Secular Humanist, a most misunderstood view of the world. We believe in the importance of doing good deeds in this world, of being good to people here and now. I don't know if there is or isn't a Creator, but in terms of what I do on a daily basis it is irrelevant. I do good deeds as I can, not for a reward in the Afterlife, but for the reward that good actions give in this life. I am also Jewish, by birth and by culture. There is no no
Ho Chi Minh, leader of North Vietnam, once described how to break the American will to continue in Vietnam. The strategy was quoted as "Fight, fight, talk, talk" or sometimes as "fight-talk, fight-talk." Basically the idea was to create an expectation of peaceful settlement with insincere peace talks and then resume the fight. When hostilities cease, you are able to gather your troops. The psychology is to weaken your opponents resolve by rais
Dr. Guy, you are correct, but this beating spurred the FBI to investigate. As an interesting side note, it seems that two FBI agents were also involved, although in what capacity I am not sure. See Link
I notice that you refer to the "DOCTRINE of sociology" rather than the "SCIENCE of sociology." (CAPS are mine for emphasis.) Why is that, Paul?
Ray Nagin does it once again. At a rally on Martin Luther King Day, the mayor of New Orleans said "I don't care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day. This city will be a majority African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be." Which part of that is most offensive? The "chocolate" part o
This article is a really interesting take on today's events at Macworld. On stage with Steve Jobs were Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel and Roz Ho, GM of Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit. CNN author Owen Thomas suggests that this is the beginning of an alliance aimed at Google, Yahoo and smaller players like Six Apart and Odeo. I had never thought of it that
Mazel tov, Debbie and Brad! Wonderful news for a wonderful couple!
Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law H.R.3402, the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005. Among other sections is "a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity." A number of journalists, including Declan McCullagh of CNET see this as thr
Thank you all for your comments. The article was long, longer than I usually write, and despite the subject matter, I was afraid that no one would read it to it's conclusion. The issue of anti-semitism in this case is unclear to me. It is often difficult to separate comments about a national leader from criticism of the country that the person leads. If someone writes a blog entitled "George Bush is an Imperialist Pig!" a significent number o
I always feel awkward about "hawking" my own blog, but I posted an article on Sharon and the massacre here: http://kupe.joeuser.com/index.asp?AID=97320 I spent much of the day researching it and a lot of new evidence has come out in the past 20 plus years. My own opinion about what happened and who was to blame changed changed during the research. To save anyone the trouble of reading a long (overly long perhaps) article, my opinion at the end
Some time ago, I wrote in an article on JoeUser that peace would not be possible in the Middle East until both Yasser Arafat and Ariel Sharon were gone. As I explained at that tiome it was not because of who they WERE so much as what the symbolized to the other side. Despite Ariel Sharon's efforts to cede land to the Palestinians and his recent formation of the Kadima
Hey, Trent. Thanks for all the time that you are putting into this. If it helps, you are my favorite game reviewer! "The combat, as I've previously said, is simply the most well-done of any FPS to date." FEAR is an excellent game and your review captures that. "There were at least one or two moments in the demo where I screamed aloud like a little girl." I thought that you YOU! Keep up the good work.
Good comments, Leauki. One might add that "the butcher of Shatila" failed to stop Christians from taking revenge on the Muslims that had destroyed their country. Neither Sharon nor Israelis killed anyone. The "butchers" were the Phalangist militias, Lebanese Christians. However, the world has never taken action against them. Christian attacks Muslim, blame a Jew for not stopping it. Do you know who Elie Hobeika was? He actually LED th
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It seems that Daschle should also be numbered among the Democrats that received money from Abramoff. See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8079308/from/RL.1/ entitled "Democrats also received money from Abramoff." But the real issue is Abramoff's relationship with Tom DeLay. In 1997, DeLay called Abramoff "one of my closest and dearest friends." Source: http://www.slate.com/id/2116389 Abramoff is supposed to have recently said "DeLay knew
There are both specifics and a general thesis here. The specifics are less important to me, we can debate issues later, so lets look at the overall concept here. "If you're an intelligent liberal, your ideology has largely been hijacked..." Too true. I say this sadly and with regret. Liberalism and conservatism are often a matter of identification. You are conservative on some issues and liberal on others. The same is true of BakerStr
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Bill Gates ISN'T a Jew? His picture is in my Yiddish dictionary next to the word "Nebbish." The Blue Screen of Death might be the Blue and White Screen of YouShouldn'tKnowFromIt.
Great article! Including Einstein, a Jew that had to flee the Nazis, in the advertisements, is more ironic than anything a satirist could have dreamed up. Thanks for posting this.
Good article. Add in the questioning of Emile Lahoud, current President of Lebanon, in the investigaton of the murder of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri and you see real divisions in the Arab world. (Hariri wanted Syrian forces out of Lebanon and was assasinated on February 14th.) Moderates are standing up to oppose the militants. But the question of who will win that struggle is not clear.
Hey, David. Nice to see you here! Working on any skins? Dr. Guy, Libby has not been convicted. He has been charged with a serious crime, true. I am sure that there are some who have pre-judged his guilt or innocence, but they are the fringes of both parties. However, I think that there is sufficient evidence to warrant a trial. Libby is charged with 5 counts of perjury, obstructing justice and making false statements. At this point I
You are right, Dr. Guy. These are only two of many groups.
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Not to be argumentative and perhaps I should have linked to this article on CNN: http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/27/news/senate_oil.reut/index.htm, but Senators from both parties felt that there was enough of an issue here to convene hearings. I quoted Bill Frist's comments earlier. Frist further said "I have asked them to call as witnesses executives from the major oil companies and representatives of the state attorneys general, who have the in
I don't watch a lot of TV and when I do, it tends to be sports. But I recently came across an OUTSTANDING show called "Destination America" on PBS. Check out the link. The episode that I watched chronicled the flight to America of two groups that came for religious freedom and found it. The title of the episide was "The Earth is the Lord's" and the groups dis
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