Thursday, August 7, 2008
In the Details
I was racketing around in an old red Datsun, its front end sounding like a death rattle, when suddenly, the noise stopped. Along with the engine. Returning home from downtown Houston, from my grueling job as a sales assistant for a tyrannical female stockbroker, it was one of those oppressively hot afternoons I’d never gotten used to as a transplanted New Yorker. Cars honked aggressively behind me as I tried to think in the unbearable heat. I had stalled out on a main thoroughfare, one that...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Hate-Mongers In Office
“Wealthy AIPAC members control many media outlets. The media in the US perpetuates an antiquated s view of Israel as a small-struggling democracy surrounded by powerful Arab nations. Americans are too ignorant and lazy to spend the time to learn the truth. Israel, since the Second Intifada which began eight years ago, has been the aggressor. Israel is the most powerful force in the Middle East with enough nuclear weaponry to blow up Iran and all its neighbors 20 times over.” - Lee Whitnum The...
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Monday, August 4, 2008
Where is God?
I wrote the following for my Humor blog, but will make a few changes to reflect my thoughts about You Know Who.... Yesterday afternoon, I thought I'd been banished to Siberia. The woman at the Westin Boston Harborfront reception desk took a look at her computer, bit her lip and handed me my room key. "All the King Rooms are full, but we do have this Harborview Double", she said, which sparked my interest, because when I book through an internet discounter, I generally get "courtyard views" which...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Pan's Labyrinth, Bruno Bettelheim, Uses of Enchantment
I was thinking about Bruno Bettelheim's seminal work; Uses of Enchantment (about children's intrinsic need for fantasy) while watching a movie called Pan's Labyrinth last night. Set in 1944 Fascist Spain, the movie was centered on a 10 year old girl, Ofelia, whose father had been killed in the war and whose mother had remarried a vicious SS Captain and was pregnant with his child. The Captain, an SS Officer to the core, was one of the most sadistic subhumans ever to curse a movie screen - and it...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Song from the Funeral I Attended today;
My God, my God I pray that these things never end; The sand and the sea, the rush of the waters, the crash of the heavens, the prayer of the heart. The sand and the sea, the rush of the waters, the crash of the heavens, the prayer of the heart. Translated from Hebrew; written by Hannah Senesh, Israel I hear this every year during the High Holidays, usually around the time we recall those lost in the Holocaust, and it gets to me every time. It is one of the most exquisite songs that illustrate...
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