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Tuesday, January 26
Doubleplus ungood Facebook
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Tue 26 Jan 2010 09:04 PM EST
The frequently irritating (that is, worth reading) columnist Heather Mallick was writing last week about Facebook. (See: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/01/21/f-vp-mallick.html). Her ... more »
Tuesday, January 12
Saeed's stumble
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Tue 12 Jan 2010 09:17 PM EST
Of all the rapid whirl of changes in the Islamic Republic of Iran, few are more intriguing than the fall ... more »
Sunday, December 20
Blowing hot and cold and dishonest
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sun 20 Dec 2009 06:03 PM EST
Perhaps you saw Sarah Palin’s tweet on December 19:Copenhgen=arrogance of man2think we can change nature's ways.MUST b good stewards ... more »
Ayatollah Montazeri
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sun 20 Dec 2009 10:23 AM EST
To write about the death of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Montazeri isn’t easy. Apart from one or two interviews he gave, ... more »
Sunday, December 6
Jockeying for power in Iran
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sun 06 Dec 2009 01:06 PM EST
For people willing to look past the issue of Iran’s still-nonexistent nukes, there were couple of fine pieces of analysis ... more »
Sunday, November 22
Outcomes and patience
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sun 22 Nov 2009 12:06 PM EST
Desperate conditions call for desperate measures, and revolutions are one obvious measure adopted by the desperate people facing the conditions ... more »
Friday, November 20
Trash talk
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Fri 20 Nov 2009 08:59 PM EST
Counting the number of critical columns and blog entries on Huffington Post yesterday and today about Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue... more »
Saturday, November 7
Minitrue
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sat 07 Nov 2009 09:00 PM EST
The historian Anthony Beevor has a new book out, called simply, D-Day. The book, going by reviews, is a ... more »
Sunday, November 1
Why do people join cults?
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sun 01 Nov 2009 04:08 PM EST
Satisfyingly, there have been a number of online reviews now of Love Sex Fear Death. While most are at ... more »
Sunday, October 18
A lesser Beast
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sun 18 Oct 2009 08:38 PM EDT
Sometimes, you can buy or download a book with a high anticipation that’s only matched by the comedown produced in ... more »
Friday, October 16
They was us
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Fri 16 Oct 2009 10:59 AM EDT
Yesterday’s post about promoting Love Sex Fear Death observed that, "Had The Process and its successor groups, The Foundation Faith ... more »
Thursday, October 15
Shameless promotion time
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Thu 15 Oct 2009 08:52 PM EDT
Promoting the book Love Sex Fear Death is obviously a labour of love for its publisher Feral House. http://feralhouse.com/titles/new_releases/love_sex_fear_death_the_inside_story_of_the_process_church_of_the_final_judgment.php. ... more »
Wednesday, October 14
The sky of unknowing
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Wed 14 Oct 2009 01:57 PM EDT
Having spent part of today – wasted, my employer might say – on looking at reviews of the work of ... more »
Tuesday, October 6
Boats, currents, ritual
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Tue 06 Oct 2009 10:12 PM EDT
You can’t go back, they always tell me. But then there’s F. Scott Fitzgerald, with his oh-so-quoted line about “boats ... more »
Tuesday, September 29
Out there
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Tue 29 Sep 2009 09:01 PM EDT
The end of democracy has been in vogue recently. I don’t mean in Islamist circles, where the blasphemy of replacing ... more »
Wednesday, September 16
Waiting on Netanyahu
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Wed 16 Sep 2009 08:29 PM EDT
For now, Iran is off the radar. Ayatollah Khamenei seems to have made whatever deals he needs to secure his ... more »
Danish furore
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Wed 16 Sep 2009 12:40 PM EDT
Denmark is not a country I have visited. It’s a blink-and-you-miss-it peninsula of a country as you fly into northern ... more »
Friday, August 28
Closed circles
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Fri 28 Aug 2009 10:22 PM EDT
The headlines this week about the kidnapping and confinement of Jaycee Lee Dugard have underlined created huge amounts of comment. ... more »
Wednesday, August 26
Amir Taheri on Iran
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Wed 26 Aug 2009 08:53 PM EDT
The situation in Iran remains both tense and fluid, and discerning which faction(s) are on top is difficult. The Islamic ... more »
Saturday, August 22
Love Sex Fear Death
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sat 22 Aug 2009 09:56 PM EDT
My reviewing the book Love Sex Fear Death at http://www.feralhouse.com is inappropriate, since (a) the primary author, Timothy Wyllie, is ... more »
Monday, August 10
Endless denunciation
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Mon 10 Aug 2009 10:02 PM EDT
There’s not much that can be said about Charles Manson that isn’t repetition of the thousand-and-one previous denunciations. Even writing ... more »
Saturday, August 8
Fortunate son
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sat 08 Aug 2009 04:00 PM EDT
Julian Borger’s article on the second son of Ayatollah Khamenei in The Guardian a month ago drew little interest at ... more »
Sunday, August 2
Great unwisdom
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sun 02 Aug 2009 10:18 PM EDT
“The need (or craving) for transcendence may well be a great unwisdom, but without it we tend to become mere ... more »
Wednesday, July 29
Inescapable faces
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Wed 29 Jul 2009 02:34 PM EDT
The case of Taraneh Mousavi (whose picture I posted today) is an intriguing if grisly one. Unlike Neda Agha-Soltan, whose ... more »
Tuesday, July 28
A god of high places
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Tue 28 Jul 2009 09:18 PM EDT
Previous posts here have quoted Harold Bloom’s marvellous 2005 book, Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine. Bloom, insisting he ... more »
Monday, July 27
And on the other, other hand
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Mon 27 Jul 2009 02:26 PM EDT
Commenting on what has happened in Iran since my last post on the topic isn’t easy. The whole governmental system ... more »
Tuesday, July 14
An ancient divide
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Tue 14 Jul 2009 09:26 PM EDT
Re-reading Vali Nasr’s 2006 book The Shia Revival, I’m struck by how the Saudis were able to fence in ... more » Sunday, July 12
Watching from far away
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sun 12 Jul 2009 09:29 PM EDT
Salam, Every time I email you now, I am concerned that someone will read what I write, and will make ... more » Monday, June 29
The main man
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Mon 29 Jun 2009 09:55 PM EDT
Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani smiles a lot, but then the richest man in Iran – and, it’s often said, the country’s ... more »
Saturday, June 27
Loneliness in Iran
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sat 27 Jun 2009 04:37 PM EDT
One factor about the Iranian situation that is hard for us to grasp is the isolation from the outer world ... more »
Saturday, June 20
Ebrahim Yazdi's view
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Sat 20 Jun 2009 08:16 PM EDT
There is a good analysis of the situation in the higher levels of the administration in Iran at www.asharq-e.com. ... more »
Friday, June 19
The unwanted revolution
by
skepticaltheurgist
on Fri 19 Jun 2009 09:53 AM EDT
Our entire appreciation of what has happened in Iran in the past week is skewed, and we don’t know by ... more » |
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