Here’s a selection of my delicious pickings for this week:
Some Politicking:
- The Unpopular Hilary: Nicholas Kristoff has an interesting oped in the New York Times on how Hilary will have to drop out if she can’t win the popular vote over Obama. The article is timely considering Senator Casey’s endorsement of Obama that might help […]

As Israel continues its illegal land grab of Palestinian territory, by caging in the West Bank, the controversial barrier wall has become more than just oppressive concrete slabs to some; it’s become an easel for various artists. Two Palestinians have come together to put a new spin on rendering the wall into an art form, […]

Author’s Note: This is, unfortunately, my 14th post on Fouad Al Farhan’s detention by Saudi authorities; 11th in the series of day-counting. So I felt it only appropriate to say a few words to mark the sad occasion. I think most of these posts pass unnoticed by most of my readers, and indeed most people […]

Ninety: The latitude of the North Pole and the South Pole.
Ninety: The number of minutes in a football (soccer) match.
Ninety: The number of Psalms credited to Moses
Ninety: The year Ptolemy, Greek mathematician, is born.
Ninety: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail as of today. He is yet to be […]

Eighty One: Year Roman Emperor Titus dies
Eighty One: Number of provinces in Turkey
Eighty One: Number of stanzas in the Tao te Ching
Eighty One: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail as of today. He is yet to be charged.
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In the past few days, trade and professional unions have been doing a great deal of work. First, they denounced the reprinting of the cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) in a Danish newspaper, which is an act that conjures an overwhelming sense of deja vu, calling on the government to sever economic ties with Denmark […]

I’ve been following this story since early February and waiting to see if and when Mourtada would be charged by the Moroccan government for creating a Facebook profile of Morocco’s Crown Prince. I had initially thought he would eventually be let go for such a silly thing, since it wasn’t like he was blogging about […]

Seventy: Number of souls that went down to Egypt to begin the Hebrew’s Egyptian exile (Genesis 46:27)
Seventy: Approximate year the building of Rome’s Colosseum began.
Seventy: Years of marriage representing the platinum wedding anniversary.
Seventy: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail as of today. He is yet to be charged.
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Sixty Six: The number of hot dogs eaten by World record holder Joey Chestnut in 15 minutes at the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Championships in 2007.
Sixty Six: Noah Webster completed his American Dictionary of the English Language 1825 at age 66
Sixty Six: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail […]

Sixty Five: The code for international direct dial phone calls to Singapore.
Sixty Five: The year Emperor Nero kills his pregnant wife, Poppea Sabina, with a kick to the stomach.
Sixty Five: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail as of today. He is yet to be charged.
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Sixty Four: The maximum number of strokes in any Chinese character
Sixty Four: The amount of crayons in the popular Crayola 64 pack
Sixty Four: In chess or checkers, the total number of black and white squares on the game board.
Sixty Four: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail as of […]

Sixty Three: The year Augustus Octavius Caesar, the first Roman Emperor, was born.
Sixty Three: The atomic number of europium.
Sixty Three: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail as of today. He is yet to be charged.
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We Are All Fouads

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Sixty Two: The atomic number of samarium
Sixty Two: Age of David Ben-Gurion upon becoming Israel’s 1st Prime Minister
Sixty Two: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail as of today. He is yet to be charged.
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- Sixty One
We Are All Fouads

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A blind 70 year old lady living by her own needs our help to renovate her house after it caught fire few days ago. The house consists of one room and one bathroom. The burnt room, which had everything she needed (fridge, heater, mattresses, closet and the stove), all got burnt. We need to fix […]

Sixty One: Age of Harry Truman when he decided to drop the atomic bomb in 1945.
Sixty One: The year (B.C.) Julius Caesar took command in Spain.
Sixty One: The number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail as of today. He is yet to be charged.
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We Are All Fouads

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Fifty: the number of years in a jubilee period.
Fifty: the number of chapters in the book of Genesis
Fifty: the number of days Saudi blogger Fouad Farhan has been stuck in jail as of today.

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