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I am by nature if not profession, a bricoleur. A dictionary of obscure words defines a bricoleur as “someone who continually invents his own strategies for comprehending reality.” In the process of doing just that I have at various times been an editor, designer, software knowledge architect, and Buddhist monk, while living in England (where I was born), France, India, and for the last twenty years the United States. The views I express here are my own.
I live frugally in the Southern Appalachians with my wife, Monica, two cats and a dog.
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010 Tribal loyalty versus the integrity of the individual (1 comments)
The campaign to demean and delegitimize individual Jews by describing them as being afflicted by self-hatred is transparently coercive. Rather than the threat of exile, there is the threat of being branded a lesser Jew, a self-hating Jew.
Saturday, October 2, 2010 The Israeli threat to global security (3 comments)
Before Stuxnet loomed over the horizon, serious warnings were being issued about the United States' vulnerability to a crippling cyber attack, yet thus far none of those raising the alarm have pointed to the ways in which Israel's cyber warfare capabilities may now indirectly or directly threaten the United States and its interests.
Monday, September 27, 2010 Expanding secrecy and diminishing privacy in Obama's America
same time that this administration is pushing to expand the boundaries of state secrecy and extra-judicial power it also wants to restrict citizens' rights to privacy as it seeks sweeping new regulations for the internet that would provide the government with the means to access all electronic communications.
Thursday, June 3, 2010 Meet the 19-Year-Old American Killed in the Flotilla Attack (57 comments)
For several days, Israel has been able to contain some of the fallout from the flotilla massacre by withholding information about the dead and injured. The object of this exercise has clearly been to slow the flow of information in the hope that by the time the most damning facts become known, the international media's attention will have turned elsewhere.
