Month: June 2005

The Timetable Paradoxes

I am not a professor of Middle Eastern studies.  I’m not even a student.  All I know about the Middle East I’ve learned through reading articles online and watching shows on TV, most of them in the past 8...

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Therapy for terrorists

So, like a good liberal, there I was on September 12, 2001, looking up good places to send my terrorist friends for therapy, when I get a phone call from a mullah in Yemen (since, of course, registered Democrats are always in...

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Damned Interesting Times

I remember taking a short course on Energy back in the early 80’s where we had a guest lecturer come up one day from Stanford.  The whole gist of the lecture was that mankind has based almost it’s complete...

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OPEN THREAD

Random Stuff: Water, a controversial Indian film about Hindu widows, is opening the Toronto Int’l Film Festival. My daughter recommends this Seattle Times story about the bride who called off her wedding but gave a big...

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