Mark Amagi | March 31, 2010
Working in the mental health field in the 1990s, I asked a co-worker what she thought was the most important ethical value or virtue: She responded “compassion,” which I thought to be a rather typical response in Northern California at that time or even today. In the early 1990s I had read Catholic philosopher Alasdair [...]
Dr. Alex Grobman | March 30, 2010
A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad by Robert S. Wistrich (New York: Random House, 2010), 1184 pgs. U.S. $40.00. Robert Wistrich, the Neuburger Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the head of the University’s Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, is [...]
Rosita the Prole | March 29, 2010
The depths of savagery, the heights of refinement, soulful, passionate- the Russians are all that, yes- but so tacky. So gauche. So ham-fisted. Embarrassing, really. And it might be time for one of our own slick Mandarins (They seem to come in two dominant strains: delicate, fine-boned, androgynous men [Rahm and Bam] or frumpy, dumpy, [...]
GM Roper | March 29, 2010
Back in the mid 50′s both the Soviet Union and the United States were pushing to launch satellites. The United States Army proposed to put satellite into space using a modified Redstone Rocket but this was nixed in favor of the Navy’s new “Vanguard” Rocket system by Glen L. Martin Co. as the prime contractor. [...]
THE AUTHORS
GM Roper
(Founder and Chief Raconteur)
Woody
(Humorist par excellence)
Mark Amagi
(Head Shrink)
John Moore
(Chief Storm Chaser)
Dr. Alex Grobman
(Historian in Chief)
