by Jan Bear | Feb 8, 2006 | Uncategorized
Writing about the cartoon brouhaha in today’s Opinion Journal, Muslim (I think Persian) Amir Taheri writes:There is no Quranic injunction against images, whether of Muhammad or anyone else. When it spread into the Levant, Islam came into contact with a version...
by Jan Bear | Feb 4, 2006 | Uncategorized
I’m listening to a murder mystery on CD by Walter Mosley, titled Fear Itself, set in the brown community of Los Angeles of the 1950s. The POV character is a very literate bookstore owner who grew up in New Iberia, La. His friend and fellow hero is a...
by Jan Bear | Feb 1, 2006 | Uncategorized
The young mother sat on the floor beside the small white casket bedecked in white, pink and red flowers, and beside her sat a man in a dark suit and overcoat with a white scarf draped around his neck.I had told her I planned to be here between 9 and 10 tonight, too...
by Jan Bear | Jan 29, 2006 | Uncategorized
First the good news. Our Intrepid Editor is back from Australia and running the Onion Dome again. He’s planning to put it to a monthly schedule and invites all you Orthodox satirists (of which there seem to be many — which probably says something, but I...
by Jan Bear | Jan 2, 2006 | Uncategorized
Watching the brouhaha over the last days of Tookie Williams’ life causes me to wonder how much the “liturgy” of death penalty opposition serves as an impetus to violent crime.I mean “liturgy” in the sense of the structure of public...