You’re minding your own business one day, when you’re summarily kidnapped, abused, and detained for months without access to anyone. Of course, when you are eventually freed, you’d certainly hope to seek some sort of justice against your captors - even an unintentional mistake causes real harm for which reparations should be obliged. [...]
Well, at least in part of the middle-east, maybe, where the U.S. isn’t busy fighting a war on terror, or drugs. Promising news from the middle east?
As part of recent negotiations between the sides, Deputy Vice Prime Minister Haim Ramon has proposed turning over many of the Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem to the [...]
I don’t pay a whole lot of attention to flag displays - mostly because they’re everywhere, they don’t stand out and they don’t really draw my attention. But lately, by which I mean at least the last 6 months, it seems like every time I do see one, driving past the library, down [...]
Last night I was watching a program on the history channel, in which they explored the underground and underworld of Istanbul, Turkey, and then NYC. The program is Cities of the Underworld and it’s fascinating, although the host is overly animated about 25% of the time.
The episode discussed, among other things, the secret power-plant [...]
