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She Would Have Turned 60 Today
I wrote this in 2010, but have not published it until today, February 28, 2020. I wrote the headline today, but I have not otherwise updated time references. Twenty-seven years ago, on October 16, 1983, a deeply troubled young woman let go of her last hold on life, and tumbled off the Golden Gate Bridge.…
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Dictionaries: A Modern-Day Morality Play
“If you don’t look up the words you don’t know, you don’t deserve the beauty of literature,” my teacher said. Four decades later I still feel the lash in her voice.
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Seeking More Muslim Heroes
Unlike the thugs who killed him, Merabet had assimilated into French society, while retaining his Muslim identity.
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Dateline Maplewood: Center of the Blogging Universe
Maplewood Patch has published a feature article I wrote about Social Media Today, a Maplewood-based social media company that draws on the work of bloggers from around the world. It’s a part of my continuing effort to establish myself as the premier chronicler of the Maplewood BlogolopolisTM. (It may already be safe to claim that…
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My Kind of Dangerous Muslim Jihadi
Mad props to Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, better known as Dr. Fadl, for attacking al-Qaeda from the jihadi perspective. (Hat tip: Cliff May) Half an hour ago I had not heard of Dr. Fadl, but apparently he is an al-Qaeda co-founder. Remember that when al-Qaeda was founded, its primary mission was not to terrorize America, but…
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Million, Billion, Trillion… Let’s Settle on "Zillion"
I’m becoming a fan of Politico, which has intelligent writing on politics without any overwhelming left or right tilt. Today the site notes that all of the big numbers start to blur together: Human beings have a hard time differentiating between millions and billions and trillions, let alone the numerical subsets thereof. To most of…
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Seeking More Muslim Heroes
Unlike the thugs who killed him, Merabet had assimilated into French society, while retaining his Muslim identity.
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Precision Strike Kills a Top Hamas Goon in Gaza
“A senior Hamas leader, Nizar Rayan, was killed today with his four wives and two of his children in an Israeli air strike in Gaza, medics said,” according to an account in The National, an Abu Dhabi-based, English-language paper. (Photo: AFP/Getty, via CNN) The deaths of the wives and children are unfortunate, but Rayan knew…
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Why Christie’s on the Right Track, in Three Paragraphs
New Jersey’s new governor is determined to reverse the state’s “failed experiment”, which consists of taxes chasing deficits in an ever-ascending spiral. A Barron’s article does the most concise job I’ve seen of explaining what he’s up against, and why his efforts should be supported. Unlike his predecessors, Republican Gov. Chris Christie has recognized that…