from the UW AAUP listserv, a post by Raya Fidel I’m not familiar with the ASA’s procedures and their deliberations about the boycott statement. But I think it is important to understand that Israel is not a small, poor, week, and persecuted country. Or a country where “indivi[...]
Archive for December, 2013
December 20th, 2013 - 11:19 am § in Misc.
The Healer … a wife?
Isn’t This Gif Awesome? It reminds me of the frustrations of resolving feuds … whether they are personal or huge scale diplomatic issues. This image could be an attorney trying to get the parties to work together or a diplomat talking with the Israelis and the Palestinians. Is this heale[...]
December 20th, 2013 - 11:15 am § in Misc.
The Good Pope
The First Pope Who Is a Mensch! “At the Wednesday General Audience the other day there was a young mother behind one of the barriers with a baby that was just a few month s old. The child was crying its eyes out as I came past. The mother was caressing it. I said to her: […][...]
December 20th, 2013 - 2:39 am § in Uncategorized
The Public View of Psychiatry
The sad thing about this cartoon is that it is an apt image of how the public sees psychiatry. I understood why anyone with these views would as be afraid of getting help as some fundamentalist would be of being vaccinated to avoid God’s will. Before we had Skinner’s scientific metho[...]
December 19th, 2013 - 10:40 am § in Hypocrisy
A Troll Leaves: Now we wonder .. who was that masked man?
The troll Bob Raymond has left a comment that he is no longer going to comment here. I do not know why “Bob” left, however it may have to do with an ongoing investigation of who has hacked this site and my UW listserv. It may also have to do with an inquiry I made […][...]
December 19th, 2013 - 10:38 am § in Hypocrisy
Merry Christmas from Amazon’s elves in Germany!
BERLIN (AP) — Hundreds of workers at Amazon.com in Germany have walked off the job in an effort to put pressure on the American online retailer in the busy days before Christmas to settle on a new wage agreement.[...]
Family Feuds; of North Koreans and Jews
Can Jewish History Say Anything About What is Happening in North Korea? parts of my essay originated from a wonderful essay posted in the Jerusalem Post by Berel Wein It is important to understand the horrible long term consequences such a contemporary fight can have. The story of Joseph̵[...]