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A Domestic Vignette
The Female: "After all, you must have cheese to go along with wine."
The Male: "Well, you can also have chocolate."
The Female: "Do you have chocolate?"
The Male: "I was talking about the general case, pointing out that--"
The Female: "Do you have chocolate??"
The Male: " . . . yes." -
UNESCO, Round Two
The Palestinians, using their membership in UNESCO, are about to claim ownership of the Dead Sea Scrolls ( Read more... ) -
The Erasure of History
Although the Palestinian Authority is not a recognized state, it has been given "observer" status at the UN, and allowed to join UN groups such as UNESCO. Israel has protested this, and now we have an excellent example of why: UNESCO is working on a draft reolution on East Jerusalem and especially the Temple Mount, AKA al-Haram al-Sharif (Noble ( Read more... ) -
Fortune of the Hanged Man
The very strange saga of Shahram Amiri has come to a final end. He was an Iranian nuclear scientist who disappeared from Saudi Arabia, apparently while performing the pilgrimage to Mecca, and the reappeared in the U.S. He claimed that he had been kidnapped by the CIA and Saudi agents, and returned to Iran, where he received a warm welcome. But less ( Read more... ) -
Choking About Mystique
There is now a controversy about an image from "X-Men Apocalypse" which shows Jennifer Lawrence's character, Mystique, being strangled by the title villain. Some have even said it "normalizes violence against women". Let's put aside how a movie about a shape-changing mutant versus a millenia-old demi-god/demon can "normalize" anything. The real ( Read more... ) -
Money Talks, And It Talks Politics
News report from Associated Press:
Bernie Sanders' campaign had less than $6 million at the start of May, a critical cash shortage as he makes an admittedly tough final play to wrest the Democratic presidential nomination from Hillary Clinton.
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The two were on roughly equal fundraising footing last month, with Clinton and Sanders each raising ( Read more... ) -
The End Times are at hand!
The Chicago Cubs, who have not won the World Series in over a century, are now the best team in Major League baseball. They have won 75% of their games so far, including a 16-0 no-hitter.
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The Silence of the Pro-Lifers
So Donald Trump is backing away from comments about punishing women who have abortions, after a lot of negative comments -- and very few supportive comments. But let's think about the position for a bit. The reason most "Pro-Life" people give for banning abortion is that they consider that, from the moment of conception, you have a human being who ( Read more... ) -
More on FBI Vs Apple
The showdown in court is on hold, at least for now. The FBI now claims that it has a way to break into the San Bernadino iPhone. The interesting thing is that, twenty days ago, FBI director James Comey said to Congress: "We have engaged all parts of the US government to see does anybody have a way, short of asking Apple to do it, with a 5C running ( Read more... )
