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Father’s Little Helper

In nasty, politics, religion, travel on 12/30/2008 at 6:26 pm

state secrets

Santa Claus brings gifts
Of Taliban secrets, and
A little blue pill.

 

Read: Little Blue Pills Among the Ways CIA Wins Friends in Afghanistan
Image source: LA Times

Farewell, Professor Huntington

In academics, attractive men, farewells, politics, religion on 12/30/2008 at 6:22 pm

Dr. Samuel Huntington

Civilizations
Clashed, history ended, and
The Professor wrote.
 
America – who
Are we? Like de Tocqueville, he
Gave us an answer.
 
 
Read: Samuel P. Huntington, 81, Political Scientist, Is Dead
Image source: The Boston Globe

Funny, she doesn’t look like a Druish princess

In attractive men, borrowed, holiday, religion on 12/26/2008 at 11:53 pm

they love haikus, too

In the ice sculpture
reflected bar mitzvah guests
nosh on chopped liver.

 

The sparkling blue sea
beckons me to wait one hour
after my sandwich.

 

Is one Nobel Prize
so much to ask from a child
after all I’ve done?

 

How soft the petals
of the flower arrangement
I have just stolen.

 

 

(courtesy of David M. Bader!)

 

Buy: Haikus for Jews – For You, a Little Wisdom

Image source: bang it out