Dr. Doolittle can talk with all the animals. I can only talk with my dog. Still, I can testify - because she’s assured me of this - that she doesn’t think of me as belonging to a different species. She thinks of me, and of my wife, and of our two cats, as belonging to … Continue reading INTER-GENERATIONAL JUSTICE
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GENOCIDE
We’re told that the meaning of a word is its use. Alright then, let’s see how the word is used. By genocide is meant the killing of a people. Well, not quite. Suppose a plague had killed off the Amalekites before the Israelites had got to them. Would that have been a genocide? Clearly not. … Continue reading GENOCIDE
IN DEFENSE OF BERNARD VALCOURT
At the risk of sounding racist … oh what the hell, I can just play my J-card – ex-Tory MP Bernard Valcourt was dead right to object to the MMIWG enquiry calling the murder of indigenous women “the Canadian genocide”. We’re all entitled to use words any way we like, provided we’re clear about our … Continue reading IN DEFENSE OF BERNARD VALCOURT
UNDERSTANDING SERIAL KILLERS
It never ceases to amaze me that whatever it is, it’s almost invariably a thing. Who knew, for example, that if you google “diary” and “Holocaust”, there are tomes upon tomes of articles on whether the Anne Frank diary was forged, and thousands upon thousands of people taking a keen interest in what I had … Continue reading UNDERSTANDING SERIAL KILLERS
JEWS, THE SHOAH, AND IDENTITY POLITICS
There’s not a whole lot that’s special about us Jews. Yes, we do celebrate Easter by drinking the blood of a Christian baby, preferably one still wet from the baptismal fount. But other than that we’re pretty much like everyone else. As Shylock asked rhetorically, “Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, … Continue reading JEWS, THE SHOAH, AND IDENTITY POLITICS
