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Nathan wrote this entry on Friday, 13th of June 2008 at 12:08:34 PM
7245|200For years now I have been going and seeing movies that are part of Nefest, the NY GLBT Film Festival. Besides the obvious silly gay films from around the world, I am often struck by some of the documentaries. I tend to see about 12 movies, with a 50/50 breakdown of serious to fun.
Last night I saw Be Like Others, a film about Iranian boys undergoing sex change operations to become female. My understanding, from the film, is that homosexuality is forbidden, but transexuals need to be medically treated and in fact the state help pay for this treatment and care.
The movie is very well done, simply, is shows you many sides of the issue in Iran and lets you make up your own mind. That said, it does confront several issue head on; if you cannot be an openly gay male, what other choice do you have?
» Continue reading Newfest ’08: Be Like Others
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Nathan wrote this entry on Monday, 10th of March 2008 at 09:16:43 AM
I don’t have much to ad. This sums is all up!
The rulers of Gaza cannot bring themselves to accept the concept of sharing the Holy Land with the Jews.
The best that the rulers of Gaza can do, is to bring an end to hope among their own people and ours as well.
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Nathan wrote this entry on Thursday, 21st of February 2008 at 06:34:58 PM
I have an RSS feed to my desktop of newly published Rand reports. I tend to read the summaries instead of the long studies, as even a student of the world doesn’t need to know the detail invovled in 700 pages treatises on a particular subject.
The report cited in the title, War by [...]
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Nathan wrote this entry on Wednesday, 24th of January 2007 at 07:07:42 PM
It would seem there is an interesting nexus in Islamic tradition and in what our very own Moses was up to.
From a web page about participating the the Hajj: It is Haram (prohibited) for men to wear sewn or stitched clothes in Ihraam (state of participating in the Hajj).
What did Moses wear [...]
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Nathan wrote this entry on Wednesday, 6th of December 2006 at 10:40:23 AM
On the cover of YNet this morning. This is really, very, very, funny. He threw a properly attired pig’s head into a mosque. I am still laughing. Adam, did you have anything to do with this?
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Nathan wrote this entry on Thursday, 24th of August 2006 at 08:48:47 PM
Listening to NPR this morning there was a fun report on the topic of biodiesel. The more and more I read about the subject, the more I think this just might be it!
Hand-painted biodiesel fuel tanks at Carl’s Corner. “We want to create an alternate fuel city. Wind power, diesel power, solar power, [...]
