Jean’s Pick of the Week: Rediscovering the Russian Classics: What could be better than talking for an hour about Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky with two of the world’s best Russian translators?
Here’s what we have planned for you in the first full week of “the cruelest month:”
Monday: Yanamono Medical Clinic: Dr. Linnea Smith took a trip to the Peruvian rainforest 16 years ago and ended up opening a medical clinic on the banks of the Amazon. This year the clinic, which was largely built by Rotarians from Duluth, was in danger of being swallowed up by the Amazon. So the intrepid Rotarians trooped back down to the rainforest and started all over again. Linnea joins us with more harrowing and heroic stories.
Tuesday: “If the Nuremburg laws were applied, then every post World War American president would have been hanged.” Noam Chomsky said that. He’ll be paying Here on Earth a visit during his stay on the UW-Madison campus next week.
Wednesday: The First Paul: Two of the world’s leading Jesus scholars – Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan – expose the church’s attempt to silence Jesus’ most radical disciple – Paul.
Thursday: Being Gay and Muslim: Writer, blogger and director Parvez Sharma is openly gay. He’s also identifies as a Muslim. He attempts to bridge the chasm between the two with his latest documentary, A Jihad for Love, a project which found Sharma talking with gay and lesbian Muslims all over the world.
Friday: Lori Skelton explores Passover Sweets – no easy feat since everything has to be made without flour.
Hope you pulled off your April Fool’s jokes. I tried to convince my husband that I had converted to Islam, but he just turned the joke back on me and said, “Oh good. Now we can both give up sausages!”
Jean
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“If the Nuremburg laws were applied, then every post World War American president would have been hanged.” Noam Chomsky said that.
And your still going to waste time on the fool who said that?
Here's some more quotes from the ever sour Mr. Chomsky.
ON THE HOLOCAUST…
“I see no antisemitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the holocaust.”
(Quadrant, Australia, October 1981)
ON THE COLD WAR…
“in comparison to the conditions imposed by US tyranny and violence, East Europe under Russian rule was practically a paradise.”
(Letter, in Alexander Cockburn, The Golden Age Is In Us [Verso, 1995], pp149-151)
ON 9/11…
“This is certainly a turning point: for the first time in history the victims are returning the blow to the motherland.”
(La Jornada, Mexico, September 15, 2001)
http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomskyhoax.html
"Hope you pulled off your April Fool’s jokes. I tried to convince my husband that I had converted to Islam, but he just turned the joke back on me and said, “Oh good. Now we can both give up sausages!”"
Dhimmi Liberals are so funny!
The two of you do realize you would be giving up a lot more than sausages, don't you?
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