Yesterday and today, PETA comes to New England with its Lobster Lib campaign. By campaigning in Portland and Bar Harbor Maine, PETA has come to the belly of the beast, as it were. Apparently, according to today’s NY Times, the … Continue reading →
Mike’s America gets a gold star, for fixing my sitemeter from afar. The world of computers is somewhat of a mystery to me, but not to Mike’s America (see this.) Thanks, Mike!
Continue reading →According to this AP article, terrorism experts have declared that the old Al Qaeda is morphing into a new entity, one that is less centralized and relies on homegrown malcontents: These experts, who include a pioneer in personality profiling, say … Continue reading →
It may seem as though I’ve been picking on “anonymous” lately, by featuring his/her comments in a serious of posts, answering them or dealing with some aspect of them. And you might ask why I’m doing this. I don’t usually … Continue reading →
In this thread about the decision to drop the atomic bomb, anonymous asks: Why didn’t they drop a nuke on an unpopulated area and say, ‘See that goddamn horror? We’ll drop another one on your heads in two days if … Continue reading →
Roger Simon recently linked to this essay by Dr. Robert Harman, which attempts to analyze terrorists and our reaction to them, and in particular the symbiotic psychological connection between terrorists and their Western apologists. Dr Harman is an orgonomist. Huh, … Continue reading →
I have a computer question for all you techies out there: my sitecounter has unaccountably disappeared from my blog. Actually, it’s not disappeared–it still works when I log onto it–but it seems to be invisible to others. I originally set … Continue reading →
I want to thank everyone whose good wishes and prayers have gone out to my mother in her illness. I haven’t been over there yet today, but the update on my mother is that there’s been some improvement, although there’s … Continue reading →
Too bad it took the death of 52 people to do it, but this announcement seems to be nothing more than simple common sense. As Tony Blair put it, without his usual eloquence: “They come here and they play by … Continue reading →
Both Austin Bay and Clive Davis recently cited this famous essay by literary critic Paul Fussell in their posts on the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb. I had read Fussell’s 1988 essay, provocatively titled “God Bless … Continue reading →
Well, it seems that another anonymous comment has piqued my interest. I don’t know whether it’s the same “anonymous” or a different one than before, or whether there’s just something inherently special about those anonymous commenters. Here it is, on … Continue reading →
I’m starting to rev up for the next post in the “A mind is a difficult thing to change” series. This is the one that will deal with 9/11. I find it helps to make a public declaration of intent. … Continue reading →