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November 2015

November 22, 2015

Refugees and Bart Simpson’s Paradox

In the summer of 2002, Brent Scowcroft published an opinion piece in the Wall Street...

November 17, 2015

A Humble Plug for Refugees

Last night in a Facebook PM session, my friend Mohammed told me that he recently...

November 14, 2015

Contra Mindy Selmys: Anger Isn’t Always Hatred

In Mesa, Arizona, three days after al-Qaeda destroyed the World Trade Center, an armed man...

October 2015

October 05, 2015

Bone of My Bone of Contention

One evening toward the end of last year, two fellow teachers and I were walking...

September 2015

September 24, 2015

Eid al-Adha for the Deaf and Dumb

It was not, initially, my intention to remain all but ignorant of the Turkish language....

September 14, 2015

For Rosh Hashanah: The Jewish Earworm

Being Jewish isn’t always a picnic. I got my first inkling of this when I...

August 2015

August 14, 2015

The Feast of the Assumption for the Downwardly Mobile

I almost always manage to skip Mass on the Feast of the Assumption. Although I...

August 05, 2015

Turkish Wedding Party Feeds Syrian Multitudes

Sometimes you run across a real-life event that echoes the Gospel almost too loudly to...

August 04, 2015

ISIS Gains A New Enemy: My Former Student

If you wait long enough on a balcony overlooking the main street of a Turkish...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

On Going to Mass in A Pissy Mood

Masses: I’ve taken ‘em high, I’ve taken ‘em low. I’ve parked my mortal coil in...

July 06, 2015

Those Stupid Private Race Wars

While marching last week through Istanbul’s super-historic Sultanahmet district to protest the Chinese government’s restrictions...

June 2015

June 18, 2015

Ramadan at the Mall

They say Ramadan opens with a rolling worldwide cannonade: each locality keeps its own cannon,...

May 2015

May 18, 2015

New Arab Saints: A Fountain of Virtue to the Thirsty

The careful reader will note something forlorn in the words “Pope Francis presided over the...

April 2015

April 22, 2015

Special Attention: Part I

On my way home from Turkey, I stopped in Kyiv -- the auld sod, more...

April 14, 2015

My Shemagh and Me

A couple of days ago, I became the owner of a shemagh. A shemagh is...

February 2015

February 18, 2015

Monday Mourning Coming Down

The day after IS terrorists beheaded 21 Coptic Christians on a Libyan beach, all of...

February 15, 2015

Lent and the Lame Evangelist

I’ve been warned that wearing a cross openly in Turkey means asking for trouble. There’s...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

Mike Huckabee, Pope Francis, and the Rise of Mother Manners

It seems a terrible waste in a man whose name is basically a dirty limerick...

January 24, 2015

Here We Go Again, Folks

Don’t tell anyone I’m writing. I’m supposed to be beavering away on a new curriculum...

April 2014

April 14, 2014

Turkey: Where Stray Cats Strut

Somewhere in the Hagia Sophia, directly under the bombsights of the six-winged angels soaring across...

April 10, 2014

Running in Bursa

It would be nice to report that I begin every morning with a four-mile run,...

September 2013

September 02, 2013

We’ve Got A Live One

The very day I wrote in praise of Catholic doodads, a friend of mine, having...

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