The Turkey Rap

Around the Blogosphere

• Elder of Ziyon
  Arab suggests helping Palestinians; other Arabs attack him: There was an educational exchange on Twitter recently that encapsulates the real problem in the Midd...
  
• Crooked Timber
  Good (and bad) news from the Open Access front: I recently wrote a short ‘comment’ for the American Journal of Bioethics. The piece is 1...
  
• Jeffrey Goldberg
  Just What Makes Goldblog a Middle East Expert, Anyway?: A look at the archival evidence    ...
  
• Terry Glavin: Chronicles & Dissent
  I Told You So.: Ottawa Citizen blog:  Contrary to the self-serving opinion coming out of absolutely all of the mai...
  
• Ezra Klein
  Ben Bernanke on robots, lasers and the Great Stagnation: Every year, it seems, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gives a commencement speech, and every y...
  
• Dissent
  YOUTHpreneur camps at IVC, home of cockamamie kiddie inventions, bouncie houses, and blue-'n'-white balloons!:      Rebel Girl just called to turn me on to this curious "camp" opportunity, adverti...
  
• Grasping Reality with Both Hands
  Lettuce in Dixon, CA is 8 Cents a Head...: ...
  
• Jeff Weintraub
  From the Spanish civil war in the 1930s to Syria's civil war today – Michael Petrou explains the fallacies of "non-intervention": I confess that I don't have any confident opinions about how the US and other western countries shou...
  
• It's Complicated
  Judith Butler and 9/11 and How We Grieve: It is paradoxical that on 9/11, when we grieve for the victims of an atrocious act of terrorism, Jud...
  
• The Rubin Report
  More Violence in Benghazi Shows After-Effects of Scandal: As I've noted, Libya is starting to fall apart and the Benghazi scandal cover-up prevented the Obama...
  
• CiF Watch
  Sounds Israeli: Ofra Haza: May 8th was Jerusalem Day (Yom Yerushalayim) in Israel, but since we didn’t post an edition o...
  
• The Long War Journal
  ISAF targets al Qaeda facilitator in eastern Afghanistan: During a raid in Nuristan province on May 15, Afghan and Coalition special operations forces targete...
  
• Harry's Place
  “I’m Rob fucking Ford, the mayor of this city.”: I always thought Canadian politicians were as boring as the rest of the country. (BTW when it comes...
  
• Two Weeks Notice
  The Tailor of Panama: John le Carré clearly had a lot of fun writing The Tailor of Panama, which is spy novel as farce. I...
  
• Generation Y
  
• normblog
  Not necessarily the most bigoted: I don't have the means to judge the comparative exercise reported on at the Washington Post; it's ab...