I hate politics. You can’t trust anyone. I mean, if I was Maqtada Al-Sadr, the dangerously political Shiite cleric who’s jostling for position in Iraq now, I wouldn’t trust my grandmother.
America enters a minefield Read More »
Thanks for that gift from last year, the Gulliver’s Travels book. Very nice choice. The Houyhnhnms, those horse-like characters, were so bright, so noble. And those savage Yahoos: so dim, so lost. Poor Gulliver couldn’t see himself in them.
To Santa from a despairing Yahoo Read More »
If we are in a so-called war of civilizations, the biggest battlefields may not be in places like Iraq but in the classroom.
Independent reasoning is at stake Read More »
Ever wonder why you don’t live in a George Orwell novel, a place where up is down if the right person says it’s so; a place that sooner or later, like a rotten empire, will always implode under the weight of its own self-deceit?
Press freedom a bitter battle in Third World Read More »
George Bush and rival John Kerry could both have picked up a few good tips from the wild-haired genius.
In Yemen, Einstein tops ‘Booosh’ Read More »
but like Western liberties we now take for granted, they won’t come overnight.
Islamic world slowly, surely changing Read More »
It’s no wonder that so many folks from Muslim nations want to emigrate to western nations.
Yemen is the cradle of Islam. But it’s not Iraq. Bullets aren’t falling like rain. Nobody is getting beheaded. It’s no Disneyland, but, besides the white-knuckle driving, most days pass without terror.
Islam at crossroads in Yemen Read More »
