Archives for August 2006

According to recent reports, scientists have identified a gene which has undergone an unusually rapid series of changes in the last few million years of human evolution. As the gene – assigned the catchy name HAR1F – appears to play a role in the development of the cerebral cortex, it may be one of the […]

I’ve long had an interest in the law – not quite enough of an interest actually to go to law school and do something about it, mind you, but an interest just the same. Imagine my fascination and delight, then, to read the following in the Jerusalem Post: The Lebanese government demanded [that] Palestinians in […]

The new 84th edition of Havel Havelim is up at Batya’s me-ander blog. As usual, there’s a lot to read; as usual, Batya has done a wonderful job of putting it all together; and as usual, I’m trembling in my boots (Crocks, actually) out of fear that someone’s going to pick me to do the […]

It appears that Israel’s President is in trouble. I must admit that I haven’t been following the story closely – not because it isn’t interesting and important (although, in a very real sense, it isn’t), but because, frankly, I’m sick and tired of hearing about other guys whose love lives are more exciting than my […]

Deterrence is a topic that has been much on my mind since the early days of the “al-Aqsa Intifada” – when every time our army knocked down a suicide bomber’s family home or otherwise seemed to act in a draconian, thoughtless, and insensitive manner, the authorities trotted out the justification that Israel was acting “to […]