Archive 2007
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- From James Adler: Wanting Israel to be Raped and…
- Harvard Square Observer: Contentious Readers
- From Jerome Richard: We Should Live So Long
- From John R. Guthrie: Thoughts at a Graduation
- From the Video Shop: December Boys
- From Liberty Street: The Right Order
- From Our Readers: Link to Other Articles
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Harvard Square Observer: The Philosophy of Jesus
- From Eric Zencey: Condoleezza Rice, Ignorant of History
- From John R. Guthrie: Some Thought on Childbirth in Stables
- From the Video Shop: Scrooge
- From Liberty Street: The Nature of a Word
- From Our Readers: Comments and Links to Other Articles
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Harvard Square Observer: Press Release
- From Lawrence Velvel: Michael Mukasey And Jewish Conservatism
- From the Video Shop: Finally the Sea
- From Liberty Street: Landmark Election
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- From James Adler: Could Moscow and Washington Have Shared the Same Piece of Land?
- From Lawrence Velvel: Arthur Sulzberger And Bill Keller On Bended Knee, Serf-Like
- Musings in My Morris Chair: My Career in Music: The Cymbals
- From John R. Guthrie: The Truck Driver Poet
- From the Video Shop: Pearl Harbor Times Three
- From Liberty Street: Character
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- From Lawrence Velvel: Read ’Em And Weep For Harvard
- From John R. Guthrie: The Machine Gunner’s Poet
- From the Video Shop: These Foolish Things
- From Liberty Street: A U.S. Truth Squad
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- From James Adler: Two Small Pieces
- From Lawrence Velvel: Gee, Gordon, That’s Great
- From John R. Guthrie: Three Poems by the American Man of Letters, Countee Cullen
- From the Video Shop: Border Café
- From Liberty Street: Despondency
- From Our Readers: Links to Other Articles
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Harvard Square Observer: Ubiquitous Plastic
- Harvard Square Pictorial: Sanibel and Captiva
- From Regent Street: The Bill of Sale
- From the Video Shop: Amazing Grace
- From Liberty Street: Political Infantilism
- From Our Readers: Comments
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- From Lawrence Velvel: The Longitudinal Lesson of Paul Krugman’s "The Conscience of a Liberal"
- Harvard Square Pictorial: A Beautiful Flash Video
- From Regent Street: The State of My Healthcare
- From Liberty Street: Allegiance
- Plus Regular Features: Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Harvard Square Observer: Senate Hearings
- From Lawrence Velvel: Outline for Program on the Responsibility of Administration Lawyers for Torture
- Musings in My Morris Chair: Team Loyalty
- Harvard Square Pictorial: Advertisements of Yesteryear
- From John R. Guthrie: The Mexican Connection - The Story of a Dental Implant
- From Regent Street: Contacting the Police
- From the Video Shop: Talk to Me
- From Liberty Street: Guile Enough
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- From James Adler: Remembering - The 12th Year Anniversary of the Assassination of Peace
- Harvard Square Observer: Why I Missed the War of the Worlds
- Musings in My Morris Chair: National Amnesia
- From John R. Guthrie: October is the Cruelest Month - The Scorching of Southern California
- From the Video Shop: Mr. Brooks
- From Liberty Street: Perspective
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- From John R. Guthrie: The “Goat-bearded, Mongoloid-Trotsky, Tubercular Agitator Ho Chi Minh” Redux
- From the Video Shop: One to Another
- From Liberty Street: Friendly Faces
- From Our Readers: Links to Other Articles
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- From Lawrence Velvel: ...In Truth Jack Goldsmith Stands Convicted Out Of His Own Mouth As Well As By Recent Events
- Now Showing: Michael Clayton
- From the Video Shop: You Kill Me
- From Liberty Street: Veracity and Public Policy
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- From Jeffrey Demers: Charlie Savage to Discuss New Book
- From John R. Guthrie: Two Poets of Interest
- From the Video Shop: Evening
- From Liberty Street: Loss or Lost
- From Our Readers: Links to Other Articles
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Harvard Square Observer: American Hospitality
- Book Review from John R. Guthrie: Fear as the Catalyst for a Fascist Shift?
- Now Showing: In the Valley of Elah
- From the Video Shop: Antibodies
- From Liberty Street: Mind and Public Service
- From Our Readers: Links to Other Articles
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Harvard Square Observer: Opus and Me
- Book Review from John R. Guthrie: U.S. Air Force Academy Drafts God as Their Copilot
- From the Video Shop: Longford
- From Liberty Street: Replenishing
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- From James Adler: What Can We Expect in the New Year?
- From John R. Guthrie: The Life and Death of a Young Woman Physician to the Viet Cong
- From Lawrence Velvel: More Garbage About Iraq From The Pols And The Media, Plus Stupid Is As Stupid Does
- From the Video Shop: Steel Toes
- From Liberty Street: Fallow Time
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Two Chuckles of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Harvard Square Observer: Lost Innocence
- From John R. Guthrie: Review of Empire and the Bomb
- From Lawrence Velvel: With Its Defeat By Appalachian State, Michigan Finally Realizes Its Many, Many Decades Old Desire To Be The Harvard Of The West
- Now Showing: The Nanny Diaries
- From the Video Shop: Georgia Rule
- From Liberty Street: The Intellectual Problem of Vacation
- From Our Readers: Comments
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- From James Adler: Muslim Hearts & Minds
- From Lawrence Velvel: Tell Me About Michael Bloomberg
- From John R. Guthrie: A Tale of Justice Gone Wrong
- Now Showing: The Invasion
- From the Video Shop: The Lookout
- From Liberty Street: Lost Opportunity
- From Our Readers: Comments
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Harvard Square Observer: Tunisia on My Mind - Part 2
- From Lawrence Velvel: The Federal Courts Bow Down, Abjectly, To The Secrecy Demands Of The National Security State
- From John R. Guthrie: Leonardo DiCaprio’s Intercessory Prayer for the Survival of the Human Race
- Now Showing: Becoming Jane
- From the Video Shop: The Lives of Others
- From Liberty Street: Errors
- From Our Readers: Comments
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Harvard Square Observer: Tunisia on My Mind - Part 1
- From Jerome Richard: History is Coming
- From Lawrence Velvel: The Speech And Debate Clause And Honesty
- From John R. Guthrie: An Evocative Journey Through One of Humankind’s Most Storied Routes
- From the Video Shop: Fracture
- From Liberty Street: Exhaustion
- From Our Readers: Comments
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- From James Adler: Mideast Apologetics: How to Lie (Perhaps Accidentally) with Statistics and Maps
- From John R. Guthrie: A Riveting Example of Investigative Journalism
- From Lawrence Velvel: Jean Edward Smith And Joe Biden
- Also from Lawrence Velvel: A Prehensile Precis
- From the Video Shop: Days of Glory
- From Liberty Street: Messages: Sending and Receiving
- From Our Readers: Comments
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- From Lawrence Velvel: Increasing The Size Of The Supreme Court
- From John R. Guthrie: One Woman’s Fascinating and Courageous Journey
- From the Video Shop: Unconscious
- From Liberty Street: Crack Up
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- From Jerome Richard: God With Us
- From Lawrence Velvel: Are We Rome? We Are Rome
- From John R. Guthrie: Two Intriguing Books on Religion
- From the Video Shop: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
- From Liberty Street: In Chicago
- From Our Readers: Comments
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- From the Video Shop: Titanic Times Two
- From Liberty Street: Crying -- Or Not
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Chuckle Extra, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Harvard Square Observer: More Musings in My Morris Chair
- From James Adler: Is Harry Potter a Christian Allegory, Like Narnia?
- From the Video Shop: Dinner at Eight
- From Liberty Street: The Man
- From Our Readers: Comments and Links to Other Articles
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Harvard Square Observer: Musings in My Morris Chair
- From the Video Shop: Driving Lessons
- From Liberty Street: Neverland
- From Our Readers: Links to Other Articles
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, two Chuckles of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Harvard Square Observer: Romney’s Malleable Convictions
- From Lawrence Velvel: [A] Central Paradox of American Politics
- From John R. Guthrie: A Sturdy and Life-Affirming Body of Work
- Now Showing: Michael Moore’s Sicko
- From the Video Shop: Breaking and Entering
- From Liberty Street: A Certain Imprecise Number
- From Our Readers: Links to Other Articles
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Harvard Square Observer: The Imperial Impulse
- From John R. Guthrie: Clap Your Hands and Say Thank you, Mister Jesus!
- From Lawrence Velvel: The High Price of Gasoline
- From the Advertising World: Six Million Dollar Rube Goldberg Machine
- From the Video Shop: As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me
- From Liberty Street: Draining
- From Our Readers: Links to Other Articles
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- From James Adler: Four Letters on the 40th Anniversary of…
- Harvard Square Observer: English Invasion
- From John R. Guthrie: On Tara McKelvey’s Monstering…
- From Lawrence Velvel: Central Points And The Frivolous News Judgments Of The News Media
- From the Video Shop: Breach
- From Liberty Street: Groupings
- From Our Readers: Comments and Links to Other Articles
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Chuckle Extra, and Site of the Week
- Harvard Square Observer: The Search for the Historical Jesus
- It is Crucial to Focus on Simple, Heart-of-the Matter Points, Instead of Trying to Complicate the Simple by Lawrence Velvel
- Harvard Square Pictorial: Utah 128, A Surprise Delight
- From the Video Shop: Metallic Blues
- From Liberty Street: Steps Toward Fascism
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Harvard Square Observer: Mucking Around with the Constitution
- The New Big Lie by Lawrence Velvel
- The War Prayer by Mark Twain
- A Panegyric for Giordano Bruno by John R. Guthrie
- Harvard Square Pictorial: Canyonlands
- From the Video Shop: Apocalypto
- From Liberty Street: Persistence
- From Our Readers: Links to Other Articles
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From the Video Shop
- How Should Israel Deal with the Qassam Fire? by James Adler
- Harvard Square Observer: Bush, Gershwin, and Empire
- Dr. Demento In The Oval Office by Lawrence Velvel
- Harvard Square Pictorial: Arches National Park
- From the Video Shop: American Pastime
- From Liberty Street: Memorializing Military Exploits
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, and Site of the Week
- Harvard Square Observer: The President Obfuscates
- Four-letter Word for Tenet: Liar by Ray McGovern
- The Truth Seeker by Jerome Richard
- Harvard Square Pictorial: Bryce Canyon
- From the Video Shop: Family Law
- From Liberty Street: Religion and Terror
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Encounters with "Lists of 'Famous Zionist Quotes'" that Endorse the Displacement of the Palestinians: from Two Letters to a Friend by James Adler
- Harvard Square Observer: The Old Technology and the New
- Let’s Hear It For Hillary by Lawrence Velvel
- From the Video Shop: The Painted Veil
- From Liberty Street: Natural Wonder
- From Our Readers: Links to Other Articles
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- I Love the Jewish People of Israel but See Orthodox Zionist Fallacies Everywhere by James Adler
- Harvard Square Observer: Virginia on My Mind - Again
- More Moral Meltdown In America by Lawrence Velvel
- From the Video Shop: Little Children
- From Liberty Street: Revelations and Frustration
- From Our Readers: Links to Other Articles
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Lebanon and Beyond: Back to the Future in the Cycle of Hell by James Adler
- Our Faith-Based Top Cop Addresses Southern Baptist Leaders on Religious Freedom by John R. Guthrie
- From Lawrence Velvel: Torture, Secrecy and the Bush Administration by Scott Horton
- From the Video Shop: Second Sight
- From Liberty Street: Righteous Victims
- From Our Readers: Links to Other Articles
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Peanut Allergies and Asperger's in the Social Counterrevolution… by James Adler
- Harvard Square Observer: Virginia on My Mind
- We Fight And Lose Wars In Which We Cannot, Dare Not, Use Our Major Advantages by Lawrence Velvel
- From the Video Shop: Notes on a Scandal
- From Liberty Street: Irrational or Shrewd?
- From Our Readers: Links to Other Articles
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Two Chuckles, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Harvard Square Observer: Malleable Convictions
- Reactionary Federal Appellate Judges, And What Can Be Done About Them by Lawrence Velvel
- Harvard Square Pictorial: Discover Discovery
- From the Video Shop: 3 Needles
- From Liberty Street: The Hidden Issue
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Two Chuckles, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Deir Yassin Denial • The Far Left and the Present • The Continuing and Urgent Need for a Negotiated Solution by James Adler
- Harvard Square Observer: St. Augustine, George W. Bush, and Original Sin
- The Presidency Has Become A Great Business Opportunity by Lawrence R. Velvel
- Response to the Trivia Quiz
- From the Mouths of Babes: What is Love?
- From the Video Shop: The Good Shepherd
- From Liberty Street: Politics, Thought and Practice
- From Our Readers: Comments and Links to Other Articles
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Reflections on "Fact and Passion: A Case for Israel" - and a Passover Rumination by James Adler
- Harvard Square Observer: The Last Day of Skiing
- Discrimination and Disagreement: A Crucial Distinction by Susan Jacoby
- Birmingham And Baghdad; The South In 1963 And The United States in 2007; African Americans And Iraqis by Lawrence R. Velvel
- From the Video Shop: The Pursuit of Happyness
- From Liberty Street: The Nature of Spells
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Harvard Square Observer: The President’s “Religion”
- If You Want To Know Why We Keep Fighting Wars, Look No Further Than The South by Lawrence R. Velvel
- From the Video Shop: The Last of the Blond Bombshells
- From Liberty Street: Islamic Women
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Fact and Passion: An Experimental, Modern, and Anti-Anti-Semitic Case for Israel by James Adler
- Harvard Square Observer: Noam Chomsky vs. Empire
- A Jewish Plea by Sara Roy
- Seven Pillars of Iraqi Culture by Craig T. Trebilcock
- Why There Was No Indictment On The Underlying Crime Of Outing Valerie Plame by Lawrence R. Velvel
- A Poem: Crusaders, Syria, 1099 by John R. Guthrie
- From the Video Shop: Keeping Mum
- From Liberty Street: Chalmers Johnson
- From Our Readers: Links to Other Articles
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Pravda in a Great Western Democracy: The Brezhnevite Jerusalem Post by James Adler
- Harvard Square Observer: His Momma Done Told Us - Barbara Bush on Dubya’s “Optical Rectosis”
- Two Poems by Lawrence Velvel
- Some Wise Advice Concerning Identity Theft
- From the Video Shop: Fast Food Nation
- From Liberty Street: The Nature of Nobility
- From Our Readers: Links to Other Articles
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Two Chuckles, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Three Letters of Opinion by James Adler
- Harvard Square Observer: It’s Your Turn!
- Harvard Square Pictorial: Mother Nature at Her Very Best
- From Moldy Folders: Just Girls, or What?
- From the Video Shop: Stranger Than Fiction
- From Liberty Street: The Structure of Class
- From Our Readers: Comments
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Site of the Week, and From Sanitas
- Harvard Square Observer: It’s Been One of Those Weeks!
- From Liberty Street: What Went Wrong?
- Former Foes Fight for Peace by Jerome Richard
- The Couch: Bush Is On It And Congress Should Be by Lawrence Velvel
- Harvard Square Pictorial: Crystal Cave of Giants
- From the Video Shop: The Well
- From Sanitas: A Lexicon for the 21st Century
- Links to Other Articles Suggested by Readers
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, and Site of the Week
- From Liberty Street: A Dialogue
- A Letter in the Somerville Journal -- and a Postscript by James Adler
- America! If You Will Not Impeach This Tyrant Who Will You Impeach? by Sherwood Ross
- A Letter to the Officers of National Public Radio by Lawrence R. Velvel
- DAILY ALERT: Prepared for the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
- In Vermont: Valentine's Day Blizzard
- Did You Know? by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod
- From the Video Shop: Infamous
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, and Site of the Week
- Harvard Square Observer: Rough Draft
- From Liberty Street: Indictment?
- New Fort Detrick "Biodefense"Laboratory May Reflect a Bush Germ Warfare Effort by Sherwood Ross
- The Preternaturally Prolific Posner on Plagiarism by Lawrence Velvel
- From the Video Shop: The Boynton Beach Bereavement Club
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, and two Sites of the Week
- Harvard Square Observer: Imperial Hubris
- From Liberty Street: A Single Gift
- Israel and the Indians -- and Lobbies Too by James Adler
- Twilight Zone / 'I've Lost My Heart' by Gideon Levy
- Let Our Children Live by Nurit Peled-Elhanan
- From the Video Shop: Broken Trail
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, Chuckle Extra, and Site of the Week
- Harvard Square Observer: Jimmy Carter’s Critics
- From Liberty Street: The Great American Divide
- Leave the U.S. Embassy Where It Is by Bradley Burston
- In China: A Walk in the Sky
- From the Video Shop: Two Sober Tales of Russian Soldiers
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, and Site of the Week
- Harvard Square Observer: The Nature of Democracy
- From Liberty Street: The Religious Quandary
- Dr. King's Birthday and the Jewish View of the Middle Eastern Conflict by James Adler
- From Al-Ahram Weekly: We, the Jewish State by Jonathan Cook
- The End Times and the Sorry State of Christian Prophecy by John R. Guthrie
- Lessons From The Philippines Insurrection And Our Overthrow Of Mossadegh, Part II by Lawrence Velvel
- In California: Joshua Tree National Park
- Now Showing: Wisdom of Men
- From the Video Shop: An Ideal Husband
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, two Chuckles of the Week, and two Sites of the Week
- Harvard Square Observer: Jimmy Carter and Israeli Actions - Part 2
- From Liberty Street: Number What?
- Grief Encounter by Jerome Richard
- Nuclear Power Not Clean, Green or Safe by Sherwood Ross
- We May Need a Huge March on Washington... by Lawrence Velvel
- In California: Palm Springs
- Microbe Experiment Suggests We Could All Be Martians by Ian Sample
- From the Video Shop: Brooklyn Lobster
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, two Chuckles of the Week, and Site of the Week
- Harvard Square Observer: Jimmy Carter and Israeli Actions - Part 1
- From Liberty Street: The Crucial Choice
- What the Media Have Not Said Upon Ford’s Passing by Lawrence Velvel
- From the Video Shop: Mozart and the Whale
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, two Chuckles of the Week, and two Sites of the Week
- Harvard Square Observer: The Venerable Harvard Square Commentary
- From Liberty Street: Dangerous Loomings
- From the Video Shop: Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
- Plus Regular Features: Wisdom from Polonius, Chuckle of the Week, and Site of the Week
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