Category Archives: essays

The shame about Corey Haim

Booze, drugs, birds and brawls.
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Ashura explosions: sanctimonious murder

We become Yazid.
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Curbing our Christmas enthusiasm

I liked prancing around the coffee table with them. It was brilliant!
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Maps: You Are My Playground Love

Truth segues into lies and lies into glory.
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Her Name Escapes Me

It is no surprise that a religiously charged people murder their daughters with impunity.
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By George, whatever next?!

We imagined a customized Nespresso bin, with a giant, laughing George Clooney on its side. Gathered around it were throngs of women.
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From Dierkes to protests: freedom of expression in its hideous glory

This is an example of the press going crazy; salivating their chops at the prospect of castigating a politician in the name of political correctness.
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Remembering Inayat

The first time I saw blood was not the first time I bled.
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On “Defiance,” Israel, and the “Jews Run Hollywood” Line

Like the Palestinians hemmed into the Gaza Strip, the Jews in "Defiance" cling steadfast to their culture.
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Look, it’s an Orphan Soul Hanging like a Dead Crow from the Tree!

Go to the remotest parts of Pacific Ocean’s islands or the most inaccessible parts of Amazon’s evergreen forests, and you are sure to come across abandoned water bottles or plastic food containers.
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