6/2/1998
Yad V'Shem (Hand and name) Holocaust Memorial Museum, Jerusalem

"Don't fix your
large brown eyes upon me....
And don't ask me
Why and wherefore
we have to leave our homes."
--SB Shayewicz, "Lekh Lekha" 1942

Dedalus,

Consider how quiet it is here, now. Earlier I was angry.

Bless the girl beside me for singing, or for making me believe she was mourning. They have seen it before. They live this truth their whole lives, day to day. No...

For the sake of argument, let's say that everyone is born equal.

For the sake of argument, let's say that America provides everyone an opportunity to succeed.

For the sake of argument, let's say that we have free-will.

For the sake of argument, let's say that everyone has a code of ethics, and everyone lives according to his/her ability to follow his/her own code.

For the sake of argument, let's say that everyone's code of ethics occasionally differs from the general, societal code o...

Myrrander:

I just wanted to revisit your "Beer/Religion" article, telling you how much I liked it. We are re-tooling our website, and would love to feature your article in our Humor section. You would be given space to detail whatever credit you wish to receive, plug any information or site that you wish.

Thanks again,

TBT

Okay. I am new to this category, new to JoeUser, actually, and I am not sure who writes what or where. But I have no doubt whatsoever that the time to discuss pizza is now.
Toppings are essential. Cheese blends bring complexity and beauty to any pizza.

Nevertheless, I believe very strongly that pizza crust is the heart, and pizza sauce is the soul of every pie we make.

Those of you who have never made your own pizza pie, please: your life, while filled with good intentions and good d...

When it comes to stating our political beliefs these days, we play loosely and aggressively with our declarations. We're the Phil Helmuths and Scotty Nyugens rather than the Howard Lederers and the Johnie Chans of ideologies.



This last round, we Democrats have stolen a favorite tactic of the ghost of Republican Past: the label tactic. Painting GW Bush as anything from cokehead frat boy to a certain fascist regime dictator seemed like a healthy pastime; moreover, it served to whip our di...

I've read your articles regularly as you post them. I think in general, it's fair to say I disagree, on a political level, with your opinions almost unilaterally.

Nevertheless, Draginol is completely correct, concerning his recent article, "My problem with the American Left".

1)There's no two ways about it: Democrats are embarrassed that GWB was re-elected.
2)We cannot believe that a majority of the country supports the direction our nation is headed.
3)I apologize.

We're just bloggi...

I call this a failure on my part: an inability to scrounge up the authoritative rule book for blogging, or internet reporting, or journalism in general, or....

Okay, here are the questions:
1)Public Domain: Is there an official rule book?
2)If I want to post an article on my own website, and my source is a news article (presumably copyrighted), how do I document the source, and where?
3)On my website, may I link to an article on another website without express written consent? If yes, wh...

Are you trying to sell conservatism?

I found this link on your site:

http://www.gnaa.us/

Give me a break.

Do you work for the government? Ever worked for an agency with the name _____ _____ Services?

First: I'm sorry. I know you never expected things to work out that way ("Okay, Billy: now it's your turn to tell everyone what you want to be when you grow up." "Yes, Mrs. Hoover. I want to be a Services Coordinator!")

Second: Let's say you're at a meeting on Wednesday morning, drinking coffee from a Stop-N-Go, trying not to shove your watch directly into your eye socket. Let's say you're 30...

Are we born human or do we learn our humanity by living? Art Woo looks for signs everywhere in Gish Jen’s short story, “Birthmates.” Art Woo has no solid instincts. He reads as much as he can into the glass of the world, hoping to identify himself in the reflection; but he misinterprets every clue, every significance. Jen delivers the details of the story through his warped senses, forcing the reader to suffer Art’s disjointed life; and the brilliance of the story reveals itself only at the ...

G.O.P.

Government of the People, yes. The people have chosen, and even if we choose to view the results of the recent election as close, we have an undisputedly elected President. This one was no nail-biter, either, as much as I may have destroyed my own nails in my anxiety. As the Ohio tally margin gradually shrank, and then grew, and finally stablized, I realized I had expected some fraud, some conspiracy clogging the infernal machines to surface, and once again I could convince myself t...

Our train car stumbled through an awkward bend, jerking me from my feverish, travel-bowel dreamings. While I drowsed, John scribbled gadget sketches into a soggy journal and munched old roasted chestnuts from a paper cone. Now the Spanish morning poured through the window curtains, so we checked our watches, both of us, and made ourselves ready for Bilbao.

For four weeks we had hitchhiked and trained north through Portugal, enjoying brilliant hospitality and cheap lodgings wherever we went. T...

Our train car stumbled through an awkward bend, jerking me from my feverish, travel-bowel dreamings. While I drowsed, John scribbled gadget sketches into a soggy journal and munched old roasted chestnuts from a paper cone. Now the Spanish morning poured through the window curtains, so we checked our watches, both of us, and made ourselves ready for Bilbao.

For four weeks we had hitchhiked and trained north through Portugal, enjoying brilliant hospitality and cheap lodgings wherever we went....

We're going to grumble here, so be patient...and return soon. For now, we are under construction, but you can anticipate endless hours of enjoyment starting Nov. 1, 2004 (yes, the day before the elections, so prepare yourselves).



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