After decades of polite scotomisation, CNN has started interviewing actual Palestinians in Gaza and East Jerusalem about what they’ve been suffering through, instead of leading with traumatised cats and dogs in Ashdod. Here in the UK, it’s gone backwards. Any Palestinian who speaks gets the ...
Welcome to CaturSaturday, November 4, 2023, shabbos for Jewish cats and National Candy Day. Here’s an excellent bar, which kindly readers occasionally send me from Canada: it’s the famous Coffee Crisp candy bar, described as consisting “of alternating layers of vanilla wafer and a foamed ...
Of course tigers and lions should live in their own habitat. It is natural. Despite them being both cats, they are different enough and should be left to their own separate (but equal) societies. But switch to humans and try the same. If you suggest France should be left to French, ...
But Parwan was a Pyrrhic victory, as it brought Genghis Khan himself across the Hindu Kush. When he besieged the city of Bamyan, a favorite grandson fell to a defender’s arrow, and Genghis massacred the city’s inhabitants, even down to its cats and dogs. Jalal ad-Din made a run for...
Gannett, the Press & Sun-Bulletin owner, is considering further reductions in its print production schedule. The company closed its printing plant near Rochester last month. The Binghamton paper and most of Gannett's other New York publications now are printed in Rockaway, New Jersey. ...
What domesticated dogs were for husbandry, domesticated cats would be for agriculture (hence also the familiar figure of Abu Hurairah). In Matthew 11:29, Jesus famously equates taking up a yoke with learning — the verb is μανθανω (manthano), to learn, from which English gets ...
I was brought up in Bergslagen―a mining district in the middle of Sweden―in the 1950s and 1960s. From an early age I was interested in animals and plants and had dogs, cats, birds, frogs, snakes and aquarium fish as my companions. As a child I always found pleasure in discussing ...
These are valid criticisms of Islam, some Muslims and Muslim states, but do they fall under “Islamophobia” in this bill? We don’t know. For, in the end, unlike anti-Semitism, “Islamophobia” is a recently confected term whose purpose, I believe, is primarily to preventcriticism of Is...
Pregnant Women are Mothers The pro-life movement also refers to pregnant women as mothers. They describe them in this way to emphasize that the preborn child is, in fact, a child. A baby is not just an item that you should be able to throw away.Pro-choicers also use the term “moth...
It uses dialogue effectively.Dialogue isn’t always the best strategy, as it can take up a good chunk of your word count without explicitly saying anything about who you are. In this piece, however, the author does a great job of using their conversations with people they meet along their...