If I don’t blog for a while. Here is why: Tomorrow I’m going in for Laparoscopic surgery (for a hernia). Several hundred thousand people seem to get this operation each year, so there shouldn’t be any trouble. For the curious, here are some pictures of an operation in progress.
More than 10,000 civilians, many of them women and children, have been killed so far in the Iraqi conflict, The Independent on Sunday has learnt, making the continuing conflict the most deadly war for non-combatants waged by the West since the Vietnam war more than 30 years ago. The number, 10,000, comes from the work [...]
I’ve written twice recently (here and here) about the misuse of the term “anti-Semitism.” So I was happy to see an extended article in The Nation entitled “The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism.” I was especially interested to learn that the 1917 Balfour Declaration was supported by anti-Semites and attacked by many Jews. To argue [...]
Before I was going to write about it, Boingboing.net had already linked to a site devoted to selling Afghan War Rugs, and unfortunately the traffic overload has knocked the site offline. What they don’t mention is that this site came to the public’s attention via this NPR story on Morning Edition. What troubles me is [...]
Advice to Kerry (or whoever the Democratic candidate turns out to be): Re-frame the issue of “gay marriage” as an issue of women’s rights. Efforts to re-define marriage in terms of heterosexual procreation are an attack on years of feminist efforts to separate biology from destiny. Re-frame the issue of “gay marriage” as an issue [...]