prescribing isotretinoin tablets australia One of my minor fascinations/horrors is the Islamic concept of taqqiya – which I also see spelled taqiyya – “religious lying.” It is associated mostly with Shiites, who were a minority in much of the Islamic world, and hence concealing their religion when asked about it point-blank was at times prudent. Of course once this […]
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Taqqiya.
15-Apr-10Hitler.
25-Mar-10buy Lyrica in australia “For over five years this man has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something he could set on fire. Unfortunately he again and again finds hirelings who open the gates of their country to this international incendiary.” – Adolf Hitler, describing Winston Churchill in 1941. Do we need any further proof […]
Virginia Brown.
11-Mar-10A really lovely tribute to a lady and a scholar, by her husband. Her story is as remarkable as she was: She had grown up in Lake Providence, Louisiana, a small town in the northeast of the state near the Arkansas border, in what was and still is the poorest county in the United States. […]
Peregrine Falcon vs. Snowy Owl
03-Mar-10From the December NYS Conservationist magazine, a set of photos of a battle between a peregrine falcon and a snowy owl at Jones Beach. One of the things I’ve been meditating on recently is the way the Roman Pliny sees nature as a kind of gladiatorial show, with every animal having a special “natural enemy” […]
Ash Wednesday.
17-Feb-10Lent begins. In the town of Liberty for the observance. “In Libertatem vocati estis, fratres.” Discipline, discipline, discipline.
Oscar the Horror-Movie Cat.
13-Feb-10I know there are lots of people who are creeped out by cats, but this will creep out (and impress) even cat lovers: a cat in a nursing home who makes the rounds with the doctors, and every patient he curls up to snuggle with dies within a few hours. He’s done this for years, […]
Astonishing.
22-Dec-09Again, so good to have Sullivan back. Who writes posts like this? Who has readers like this? Sheer supergay yule pathos.
The Bottom of Giant Ledge.
22-Nov-09I climbed Giant Ledge with a friend yesterday, and we elected to go around the mountain and inspect the foot of the cliffs from below. We found a little unexplored world, November moss on all the rocks, green against the coming winter – this is a steep East-facing slope, and stays cool and moist all […]
Death in Dreams.
22-Nov-09I had a friend over Saturday, and after he left I felt tired – I had not slept well Friday night – and the warmth from the fire put me to sleep around 5 p.m., just as it was getting dark. I slept for three hours. Just before I woke, I dreamt I was driving […]
Fall Photos.
15-Oct-09A photo album I put on Facebook, of fall in the Catskills. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=679762896&ref=ts#/album.php?aid=153937&id=739546612&ref=mf