A Brooklyn-based friend of mine recently sent me an email I begged her to let me publish. My friend will remain anonymous out of fear that Charlotte Kates will bring her friends over and throw rocks...
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Sharansky (Bush’s Bashert) to Retire From Politics
OK, so Bush didn’t use the word bashert. But in this report from the Washington Post, announcing that Natan Sharansky would be retiring from politics, it noted a previous comment by the US...
Dancin’ Fools
Hat tip to our own Esther To those who don’t know about this ritual, here is some info.
Abbas speaks from two sides of his mouth
Abbas told Condoleeza Rice last week that he would work toward getting Hamas to recognize Israel. He then turned around and gave an interview in Arabic to an Arab reporter where he specified that...
Let’s say you’re a fox and a hen comes to guard your house
How would you treat the hen? Okay, okay, I’m called TheMiddle, so let’s also ask what would happen if you’re a hen and the fox comes to guard the henhouse – how would you...
Holocaust Human Soap Story May Be…TRUE
Both AFP (yuck!) and Deutsche Presse-Agentur are reporting that Poland’s Institute for National Remembrance (IPN), a Polish government-funded organization has studied a bar of soap from the war...
The Bazaar
I thought this was an interesting viewpoint. In the Mideastern bazaar, diplomacy agreements are kept not because they are signed but because they are imposed. In addition, in the bazaar of the Arab...
The Gospel of Green
Important moral issues can make strange alliances. An article in todays LA Times highlights the mission of Green Evangelists to spread the Gospel of Green—That God’s world needs care and...