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Thursday, June 12, 2008 - Posts

• Lil’ Kinz Breaks Her Arm

  Not even a week had elapsed between History Buff's cast coming off, and Lil Kinz' cast coming on. Three kounouz in casts in eight months, it's a family record! She was playing with History Buff outside, and she fell off something and landed wrist-first. Read More... Posted 12-06-2008 09:34 from my treasure | 0 Comments

• Arabic Prose

  I’ve been writing Arabic prose for nearly 5 years (intermittently). I’ve always kept my writings private since I often expressed private emotions using untraditional symbols and metaphors so I didn’t think people would understand, let Read More... Posted 12-06-2008 02:43 from Sugar Cubes | 0 Comments

• Autonomy and Instrumentalism

  I've been reading Michael Frazer's paper 'John Rawls: between two enlightenments', and was puzzled by the following passage about reasoning behind the veil of ignorance: Facing the possibility that they will be deeply committed to a certain religious Read More... Posted 12-06-2008 12:17 from Philosophy, et cetera | 0 Comments Filed under ethics

• Good (Real) Food

  I'm back from a lovely vacation in The Little Apple . Philosophical content will return shortly, but first I just wanted to share the wonderful news that broccoli can be made to taste good -- all you have to do is drizzle lemon juice over it. Who knew? Read More... Posted 12-06-2008 11:16 from Philosophy, et cetera | 0 Comments Filed under fun

• Smile, You’re in South Lebanon

  “Smile, you’re in south Lebanon” is a great documentary I was lucky enough to watch last week in Souk Jara. The 1 hour and 20 something minutes documentary by a brilliant Dalia Kury filmed the life of a southern Lebanese family and how Read More... Posted 12-06-2008 09:12 from Sugar Cubes | 0 Comments

• So..Whats next?

  Read This I Wish -For once- they are plan on reducing something instead of increasing it. How about increasing the Salaries? After the gas prices went up and this now, I wonder whats next! Read More... Posted 12-06-2008 05:16 from M For Mystery | 0 Comments

• a question

  do we have a number for how much printed money is there in the world measured in Dollars? what would the figure be like? trillions? quadtrillions? centillions?! can we know that? Read More... Posted 12-06-2008 03:41 from Degrees of Freedom | 0 Comments Filed under World, scribbling with my mind

• Along the Desert Highway

  Along the Desert Highway Originally uploaded by jojournals Back in 2006 I took this photo proudly announcing the entrance to a village along the desert highway, south of Katrana. But that was then when pride was in the air. Today, it looks slightly different Read More... Posted 12-06-2008 03:08 from Jordan Journals | 0 Comments

• Celebrate Keffiyah Day on June 26th

  Read More... Posted 12-06-2008 02:12 from Ali | 0 Comments