Monthly Archives: August 2005

I fly a lot.  And I have a very simple principle: I want the plane to go up voluntarily and I want the plane to come down voluntarily.  Everything else in between has become pretty much inconsequent to me.  Accordingly, … Continue reading →

Cindy Sheehan may be opposed to the war in Iraq.  However, her opposition to the war does not make her a Rosa Parks.  Nor does anything that she has thus far done.  The comparison strikes me as utterly inappropriate for … Continue reading →

I can be a very forgiving person.  In fact, I do not like it when people use the wrong that someone has done to them as a vicious weapon against the individual.  Yet, I do not forgive easily.  Have I … Continue reading →

There is the biblical saying that “Love hides a multitude of faults”.  Of course, of the author of this saying did not think for a moment that if we love someone, then we are indifferent to the person wallowing in … Continue reading →

I want you to judge me morally by what I say and do.  If you see me being kind and considerate or, by contrast, mean and exploitive, then I want you to judge me accordingly.  For that is how I shall … Continue reading →

Well, there are infidels and there are  infidels. Two gay teenagers in Iran— Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni—count as infidels of the other kind.  Now, when I did a search in the archives of the New York Times, I easily found a … Continue reading →