A story .. when our kids were old enough to speak their minds, we made a first trip to Boston. On the plane back we asked them where they would like to eat when they got home to Seattle. They said they wanted “Seattle food.” What? Turns out that “Seattle food” was su[...]
Posts Tagged ‘SMS family’
Buchenwald 56. Living Danish Heroes at Rosh Hashanah … Teshuvah
As we approach Yom Kippur 5775 (2014 CE), today marks nearly the fiftieth essay in my Buchenwald series. This essay is posted during one of the ten days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, days each Jew is supposed to spend thinking about how to be a better person …a process called &[...]
September 29th, 2014 - 5:19 pm § in Jews
You, you … caveman!
Fifth of Neanderthals’ genetic code lives on in modern humans outside of Africa Benjamin Vernot and Joshua Akey at the University of Washington reported in Science that they sequenced the genomes of more than 600 people from Europe and eastern Asia. They found a lasting legacy of sexual encou[...]
August 1st, 2014 - 4:54 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
BUCHENWALD 55: As Gaza blazes and on the 70th Anniversary of the Polish resistance in Warsaw, Can we remember the motto, “Never Again?’
In May of 1943 the Germans finally destroyed the Jews still in the Warsaw ghetto but Warsaw, now Juden frei, was to see more blood in 1944. The suicidal actions of Hamas, their willingness to die for a failing cause, reminds me of the Warsaw ghetto. The Jewish resistance had arisen within the[...]
Anniversary of the Negris leaving Spain
My family name, when we lived in Spain, was Negri .. a word meaning that we were dark folks like the moors. In March 1492 King Ferdinand, under pressure from Torquemada, issued a decree of expulsion against the Negri. Four months later, two days before Christopher Columbus set sail, my family left[...]
June 24th, 2014 - 9:08 am § in Misc.
Gun Raffles Spread: From South Carolina to New York and Now WASTATE
Former Redskins Player Running for Office Hopes to Sway Voters with Gun Giveaway Sunday, I wrote about the KKK in my sister’s home state of South Carolina, one huge reason I am glad not to live there. Well, maybe I misjudged, fetid politics from the confederacy seems to be spilling over to m[...]
June 22nd, 2014 - 4:19 am § in America
Why Do People Choose to Live In South Carolina?
There are 160 known, active Ku Klux Klan chapters in the United States, according to research from the Southern Poverty Law Center. South Carolina comes out rather well, with only 3 in the state borders. A bit surprising given that SC was the source of most of the ideas that undelay the KKK’[...]
The Napoleon Syndrome
There is a drug for paranoid schizophrenia! One of the most amazing experiences of medical school was actually meeting schizophrenics. Reading about schizophrenia had not been enough to convince me that these people really had a special illness. After all, there seems to be enough variation [...]