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Why I'm voting for Kamala Harris

WHY I’M VOTING FOR KAMALA HARRIS

Given the choice this year between voting for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris, I have decided to vote for Vice-President Harris, rather than not vote at all or spoil my ballot.  No doubt, some of my evangelical brethren will cast me as an apostate or consign me to the outer darkness.  As it is, they are siding with a narcissist who is a convicted sex offender, whose only association with Scripture seems to be selling Bibles at exorbitant prices to pay for...

Carpet theology

CARPET THEOLOGY

Many of us have rugs at home, perhaps in our living room or under our dining table.  Most of us know that the best and therefore the most expensive rugs in the world come from Persia (Iran.) For example, ten years ago, a rug formerly owned by a one-time U.S. Senator and known as the Clark-Sickle carpet, earned the distinction of being the most expensive carpet in the world.  According to the BBC, the rug: Today, thanks to AI and other innovations,...

Unspeakable horrors

UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS

The people in the photo below are headed north. In our direction. It’s what Fox News calls a caravan; or perhaps the beginning of one, or perhaps the end of one. These migrants want what we all want—to be safe and to be free.  At the moment, the scent of fear is overpowering to them.  But the smell of freedom, also faintly present, is irresistible. They have a path laid out for them, courtesy of a million or more people like them who have...

Scary stories, pizza parlors and critical thinking.

SCARY STORIES, PIZZA PARLORS AND CRITICAL THINKING

If you look up the word “lunacy,” you’ll see that it is based on the belief that the phases of the moon affect behavioral disorders.  In fact, a fairly recent article in a prestigious psychiatric journal notes that “as many as 81% of mental health workers” believe that the full moon correlates with people losing their minds.  That would make it once every twenty-eight days.  And while this journal disputes this notion in their article “Psychiatric Presentations During All 4 Phases of the Lunar Cycle,” I must...

“A LOT OF BULLSHIT HAPPENS IN OUR COUNTRY. BUT A LOT OF GREAT THINGS HAPPEN, TOO."
Omi's aneurysm

OMI’S ANEURYSM

One of the most important questions Deena and I had to ask of the other when we first met was whether we shared the same faith (or if any faith at all.)  We could not at the time foresee my eventual cancer or Deena’s cerebral aneurysm.  But having a mutual belief system meant that we had a common stratagem which we could fall back on when the road got bumpy (and as we were both approaching the age of seventy, the question...

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 12:23:00 GMT

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Iran issued a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) OIIX TEHERAN (ACC/FIC/FIR) early this Monday morning. Most of it looks like code to the average person, but a closer look reveals that it contains GPS locations, radio frequencies, and specific warnings buried in it. Such as: "PROBABLE GPS (GNSS) FAILURE OR DEGRADATION WI TEHRAN FIR,PILOTS SHALL REPORT TO ATC AND CONSIDER GPS (GNSS) ANOMALIESINCLUDING DEGRADED OPERATION AND/OR LOSS OF SERVICE,AS SOON AS POSSIBLE." While this can indicate nothing more than Iranian plans to...

The Fermi paradox

THE FERMI PARADOX

The Fermi Paradox is a discussion of why, if our universe teems with life, have we not discovered it yet? Or, why have the ET’s have not discovered us. According to legend, a group of scientists (including Entico Fermi, a noted physicist from Italy), were sitting around a table some seventy years ago, just chitter chatting about science or the weather or the war and what not. Someone broached the subject of extraterrestrial life, and the statistical probability that many...

GENDER AND DRESS IN THE PARIS OLYMPICS

I wanted to add my two cents (currently 0.018 Euros) to the Olympic controversies that have arisen. First of all, I did not watch more than twenty minutes of the opening ceremonies, so I did not see the provocative skit that was alleged to be a sacrilegious takeoff on the Last Supper.  I’ve heard both sides of the controversy, but as I did not see it, I cannot personally weigh in on this issue.  What I did see in the opening ceremonies had little...

SENTINEL EVENTS: WARNINGS FROM WITHIN

Deena and I have been focusing on the word “sentinel” lately, in the context of her aneurysm. This is a word that has largely escaped me, probably because we used the term “precursor” back in the day. “Sentinel,” seems slightly more romantic to me, however. Yet, there is nothing romantic about the problem your sentinel wants you to be aware of. One of the hallmarks of a teacher is the desire to share something new and interesting with the “class.”...

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