Tariq Nelson

Man allegedly loses his job, goes home and kills his wife and five children before turning the gun on himself. What a slime

Filed under: Reflections | 12 Comments »

If you want to make a social point in a movie, there should be two rules of thumb.
a) Entertainment Value
b) Not making the message overbearing
Do not continue if you do not want to be spoiled…

Filed under: Race, Reflections | 3 Comments »

The other day I got into a discussion with a young American of Arab origin who was berating Americans for being fat, selfish and lazy. I hear this kind of talk often, and in the past I have ignored it, but these days I have little patience for this type of nonsense.I have listened for [...]

Filed under: Reflections | 77 Comments »

I have gotten several emails about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict asking me to write about my position on the matter.
Let me begin by stating that I believe that this conflict is 100% intractable. There will NEVER be a solution short of the extermination of one side. How can there be a solution when one side believes [...]

Filed under: Reflections, The Culture of Denial and Pretense | 91 Comments »

Resolution (rĕz‘ə-lū‘shən)

The state or quality of being resolute; firm determination.
A resolving to do something.

Best wishes to everyone in the new year. Keep those resolutions. I have a few to keep myself that I have already begun to work on.
- Get in shape (I know it is cliche, but I mean it)
- Continue to [...]

Filed under: Reflections | 5 Comments »

A friend of mine emailed me yesterday informing me that I am a finalist for the weblog awards under the “religion” category”. (This on the heals of winning the Brass Crescent’s “best blog” award!) I had no idea that I was even nominated, much less made it as a finalist.
According to the site, the Weblog [...]

Filed under: Reflections | 23 Comments »

With the bad economy, we’ve heard a lot of talk about a second Great Depression coming. Then with all the biting of nails, we see a story of a Wal-Mart employee being trampled to death by eager shoppers.
These shoppers were not starving and searching for food out of desperation. They were not seeking to satisfy [...]

Filed under: Reflections | 25 Comments »

I was really glad that the long night that I was expecting didn’t materialize. It started out a little slow and nerve-racking as we were already very anxious. When Pennsylvania went blue, we felt a little better, but we had yet to flip a red state and Virginia was looking very bad (about 100,000 vote [...]

Filed under: Politics, Reflections | 38 Comments »

In my life - in many cases - I have expected too much from those I thought were friends. About 13 years ago, I met a man named Uthman. For a few years we used to talk and do activities together. In my mind, we were friends. However, I would find out later that [...]

Filed under: Reflections | 33 Comments »