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Monday, December 8, 2014

Fiction and Reality…Part II: Reality

I hope nobody is looking to find out what Wassermann was up to (Sorry, FSI) – I’m not sure, other than that he was up to no good! To be honest, I am bored with the whole thing! To be totally honest, I was bored with it almost the minute I began it – I’m not terribly fond of that kind of fiction,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 7, 2014

Fiction and Reality…Part I: Fiction

The door opened. He looked up from his papers. “What is it?” “There’s a gentleman here to see you, a – a Dr. Wassermann… ” She gave the name a strange inflection, the way she did if there was something strange about a visitor. “I’m very busy, Dorothy…” “He’s a marine engineer… – “A marine engineer?”... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 6, 2014

Response-to-Comments Day…

Today a couple of responses to comments, one to a post from yesterday, the second one – well, lets simply say it’s long overdue… The first one is by FSI, whose comment is in response to my post ‘A lost opportunity?’ He writes: “ I remember talking about Benedict's words back in Theology in America,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Heresies…

Remember the time when the word ‘heresy’ had an ominous ring? You probably don’t, unless you’re a historian, but of course even then it doesn’t carry the weight of an existential threat it once did in the Christian world. To be branded a ‘heretic’ could, and often did, lead to one’s death in the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Constructing the anti-Israel bias...Part II

Bombing cities kills civilians! In WWII, all sides did it intentionally – Warsaw, Coventry, London, Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki – it was always done ‘in a good cause’, to ‘shorten the war’, to ‘minimize casualties’ or some such. Our side doesn’t do that any more – and by... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 1, 2014

Constructing the anti-Israel bias...Part I

Something that has been obvious to me for quite some time now is coming into focus – the way media’s presentation of Middle East news is shaped by specific political interests. Let’s be absolutely clear on this – news is news only in and through the media. If an ‘event’ hasn’t been reported... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 28, 2014

I had just read something by our Ciel…

Like me, she can’t stand it when people don’t know how to use I, me, us and we properly, and she explains it well. It’s here: http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel9331/844677 (In her previous post she tells us she doesn’t like ‘alright’, and that’s her prerogative, of course. But it’s mine to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

To Our Americans

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU AND ALL YOUR LOVED ONES! Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

And then there was Ben…LXXX

It’s time for a topic more cheerful than the nasty stuff I’ve been telling you about, and there is little that can put me in a cheerful mood as quickly as my Ben. When I last talked about him, I was discussing the way he communicates with me, and of course he’s not unique in that respect – I’m sure... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 22, 2014

Guess what – it’s Response-to-Comments Day…Part III

As I mentioned yesterday, this is turning into a Response-to-Comments weekend, more or less, since I simply can’t handle all I want to address in one fell swoop, LOL… Today I shall deal with two comments that are related enough to be discussed together. First there’s CCT, who writes: “Sadly I don't... Sign in to see full entry.

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