About 24 hours ago, I posted a humorous (or at least hopefully-humorous) piece about the most recent bribery accusations against Ariel Sharon. Just a couple of hours after I posted it, Sharon suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage; while he remains alive as I write this, the odds of his full recovery appear small. Whether he […]
Archives for January 2006
High Bribes: Feeling Good About Being a Sharon Voter
So the Ariel Sharon bribery case is alive again – not that it was dead exactly, but we’d managed to stop talking and thinking about it for a few weeks, which was almost as good. Now the police are saying they have new evidence that Sharon and Sons received some $3 million from the Austrian-Jewish […]
Cancer, Correlation, Causation, and Counter-Terrorism
My first wife died of breast cancer in 1999. Over the seven-year course of her illness, I was forced to become something of an expert in the disease. While I no longer devote a great deal of time to the subject, I still keep a general eye on developments in the field; so I read […]
On the Face Has a New Address!
Lisa Goldman’s wonderful blog has a new home. On the Face is now at ontheface-dot-blogware-dot-com instead of its old blogspot-dot-com address. Fix your links, folks!