I’ve never played the lottery and never will, but I was listening to Barenaked Ladies on the radio today sing “If I had a Million Dollars” and started thinking to myself (out of boredom) what I would do with that money. At the same time I remembered the Amazon.com Wishlists people have set up on […]

How do you Censor the First Amendment?
Two Sundays I was watching an episode of one of my recent favorite drama shows, Boston Legal. It is a spin-off from David E. Kelly’s “The Practice” which came to an end last year.
As always Kelly wrote an episode that set the scene for a controversial court room battle. […]

I haven’t watched a movie since…hmm…lets see…January? is that possible? Talk about 2 months of withdrawal. I didn’t think I could survive
Well I was surfing the net today and came upon a trailer for a movie I never heard of. It’s called The House of D, a David Duchovny film. I was a big X-files […]

By way of Arab Media Watch
Please take a minute to thank the Sunday Times and Daniel Day-Lewis for an excellent article in the March 20 edition entitled “Inside scarred minds”, in which the renowned actor, on his first visit to the Gaza Strip, meets Palestinian families living in conflict and the psychologists who are counselling […]

We Hardly Knew Yee!
Heck I thought it was Wednesday today. I must’ve slept through the whole thing. Anyways, if you missed it, you missed nothing. Jordan’s initial propsal concerning re-newing the Beruit 2002 initiative was rejected with outrage, then considered, then rejected, then looked at over a mid-afternoon snack of jelly donuts and coffee, then […]

The Paltel Virtual Gallery at Birzeit University
As a consequence of the siege of recent years and the confinement of Palestinians to their towns and villages, a situation has been created in which Palestinian individuals and communities are severely isolated from one another and the rest of the world. This situation has been intensified with the […]

I know by now there’s a whole bunch of people posting the recent Jordan Times article about Mostafa Mahmoud Salameh’s attempt to be the first Jordanian (and Arab) to climb Mount Everest. Jordan Times has done several features on him which I’ve read with interest. Though I thought to myself, heck, this man deserves a […]

An article of interest by way of The Electronic Intifada. EI contributor Hasan Abu Nimah, who spent four decades as a Jordanian diplomat writes an articulate article on Jordanian Diplomacy (or lack thereof) in recent days that has resulted in some unfortunate friction between Jordan, Iraq and Syria. A version of this appeared in the […]