Monday, September 24, 2007
IRANIAN AT COLUMBIA
In New York, particularly, there is quite a furor over Columbia University inviting the President of Iran to speak. Perhaps, based on his prior utterances, this response may be understandable. Yet, it may be better that we hear what he says. One should be encouraged to display his reprehensible...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
HOW TO AMEND THE US CONSTITUTION
A few days ago, WavyDavy, a fellow blogger desired to know how the US Constitution is amended. Please see information below. To Amend the Constitution Article 5 Article V of the Constitution outlines how to amend (modify) the document. It consists of two steps: proposal and ratification. 1. Propose...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
MY WISH
This is a holiday weekend for the Jews. I wish them well, wherever they are. In a land as diverse as ours, it is prudent that we appreciate ALL our neighbours. Stay well; walk good my friend.
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Saturday, September 8, 2007
RECIPE FOR SUCCESS - PART 1
This post reproduces a leture which, in May 2002, I gave to a group of graduating High School students. I just stumbled upon this draft and thought I'll share it with you my fellow bloggers. The draft has been edited to make it more relevant to this audience. The substance is essentially unchanged....
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
DEFLATED BY OUR EGOS
Have you ever thought of the comedian who gives what he considers his best joke and nobody laughs? Have you ever thought of the preacher who gives what he considers his best sermon and gets no amens? Have you ever thought of the politician who runs what she considers the best campaign and gets the...
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Saturday, August 25, 2007
PERFECT
I here paraphrase a statement made to me a few days ago. God, yours or mine, would probably never have created the world in the time he/she did if there were the current bureaucracy then present and so much paper work was required. Our existence thus is a product of the benefits of precivilization....
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
JUDGE NOT
Yesterday I walked down a fashionable New York street. A well dressed woman approached me and whispered a request for a dollar. I did not have that denomination in my wallet. She implored, "would you give me some change." I had some change but I left her standing. I thought that in that...
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Thursday, August 9, 2007
HOW TRUE
It took me many readings to appreciate the power of the next few lines. I recall them here so you may tarry for a moment; and see. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes Patience her injury a mockery makes. The...
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Monday, August 6, 2007
NO NEED TO HAVE REGRETS
35W, the bridge in Minneapolis fell. Many lives are lost. That is indeed a tragedy. Apart from recovering the bodies and getting them interred, we can do very little more. Yet we can learn from those who risked their lives to help. We can change our thinking right now. We need not wait until a...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Horace: We All Must Die (1st C. BCE)
Please Digest. ISN'T THIS GREAT? Note the last verse. Is that not so true? Cynical, yet so true. People in many cultures have found it proper to meditate on the inevitability of death. For Medieval Christians reminders of death were spurs to repentence, so that the believer should escape Hell and...
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