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Tonight's reading

October 28, 2004

I’m about to help my son with his homework, since he has a learning disability and can’t read very fast. I love my son and I love helping him with his homework. Unfortunately, it’s for a history seminar I’m starting to think of as “Jew-haters and How They Grew”: it’s focusing on Hitler and Stalin. … Continue reading Tonight's reading

Popularity in high school, thirty years later

October 28, 2004

So what I’m thinking is that it is possible for a high-school reject to get revenge. It takes 30 years or so, and the wonderful experience of childbirth, but it’s possible. Here’s how it happens: you and your husband stop off on the way home from lunch at the neighborhood grocery store (they still have … Continue reading Popularity in high school, thirty years later

Arafat dying

October 28, 2004

So Arafat is sick, probably dying. Besides thinking “Yay!” I am also thinking that it is the best way for him to go: dying of an illness rather than from any war or assassination. Why? Well, this is probably more painful. But, even more important, no Palestinian can blame Israel for this. There can be … Continue reading Arafat dying

All you need to know, Lileks edition

October 28, 2004

LILEKS (James) The Bleat All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him.