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Protected: Adin to College

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Iran never cancelled the hit on Salman Rushdie. Like a mob boss with a hard-on for vengeance, Khomeini issued his fatwa calling for Rushdie’s death in 1989. Rushdie went into hiding for decades. In a footnote to my post on the Western Canon, I referenced the fatwa as an example of dangerous intolerance that derivesContinue reading “Salman Rushdie”

Sound and Sanity

At 6 AM I was wakened by an intermittent pop-pop … pop. It wasn’t the dog. What was it? Sluggish and slow, I got out of bed to investigate. Not the cats nor the kids. Moving to the kitchen I saw the open window and realized it was the roofers starting early on my neighbor’sContinue reading “Sound and Sanity”