A magic word against magic mushrooms

A bureaucrat, whose foremost ambition is to maintain the stasis, knows very well that the best way to avoid any change is to use the magic w...

On questioning professor Joseph Levine

I wasn't raised in a particularly religious Jewish environment, but these days when I see an article titled like On Questioning the Jewi...

Daylight Headache Time

What he says . And amen to that.

Ben Zygier aka Prisoner X - the buzz, the facts and the eggs on faces

It seems that the story which began a few days back under headings alluding that Israel is abusing the human rights of a certain Prisoner X ...

Israel flips a bird to U.N. Human Rights Council

This is what this amounts to: Israel became the first country to boycott a required U.N. review of countries' human-rights practices, c...

North Korea: why sticks just might work, Charles Armstrong notwithstanding

Poster's disclaimer: The article discussed in this post starts with a disclaimer: Editor’s note: Charles Armstrong is the director of th...

Leaving Brezhnev in the dust

Some of you may remember having fun with the penchant of good old Leonid Ilyich to award various Soviet medals to himself: Of course, he was...

What Jonathan Freedland doesn’t get

I've stumbled on a (new to me) appearance of Jonathan Freedland under the auspices of Open Zion section of the Daily Beast, edited by Pe...

Le miracle du président de Hollande

Now, now, please keep you undies untangled. It is Google Translate, of course, and for all I know it skewed the meaning. The single word in ...

Wrinkled fingers test: another candidate for Ig Nobel Prize?

The pursuit of happiness in the form of a doctoral degree sometimes brings amazing results. This is another case of such pursuit: UK resear...

So you don't like them Ayatollahs too, folks?

If Reuters are saying this , it must be true: Six U.S.-allied Gulf Arab states demanded on Tuesday that Iran end what they called interferen...

Euphemisms, Nidal Hasan and Christina Hendricks

Euphemism is defined as "an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh...

Speculating on Iran-Israel nuclear conflict: this way insanity waits

Boys usually indulge in fantasies of a "military" type, probably from the moment they are able to construct sentences of the ...

Israel, Iran and the all-seeing eye of the Mossad

I swear that if I see another headline like this anytime soon, I shall pick up some weapons, ammo and do the whole deed by myself - just to...

Fake landing : Mars Curiosity rover is really near Area-51 In Nevada. And the first super-secret image from Mars - here!

As sure as death and taxes : The supposed landing of the Curiosity was CGI and computer sound effects piped into mission control at JPL in o...