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My Keffiyeh

A Palestinian style keffiyeh

Sometimes I wear a Keffiyeh around my neck. In case you don’t know what a Keffiyeh is, it is a square piece of cloth often worn by Arab men on the head to protect from the sun and also sometimes to protect the mouth and nose from sand and dust. The [...]

More Thoughts On Religion

I’ve said quite a bit about my agnosticism in regard to religion or the supernatural. I’ve pointed out what I believe is irrefutable evidence that, throughout history, organized religion has been responsible for some of the largest offenses to humanity .

Yet, on a personal level I have seen many examples where religion has helped people. [...]

Religulous – I’m giving Bill Maher’s Movie an F

Kristin loaded the DVD, which arrived from Netflix after much anxious anticipation… An intelligent and satirical look at fundamentalist religion… A focus on the politics of religion… What could be better?

Since this is MY blog – and I reserve the right to say whatever I want – I’ll tell you, briefly, what my own feelings [...]

Food For Thought - Palestine

What would you do if you lived in a geographic area somewhere, and one day an influx of people from some particular ideological, religious, or political group began to move in? Maybe you don’t like them too much. Maybe they don’t like you too much. Maybe you’d fought for many hundreds of years – maybe [...]

July 4, 2007

I’m not feeling that great about being an American this Fourth.

I haven’t felt great about it for a long time.

You know I love this country—and if the Canadians ever decide to invade Montana I’ll be the first one to bear arms.

It is a beautiful country. Many people have found opportunity here and built fortunes. [...]