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Dare I Say It? The Tea Party Has a Point

Nathan — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:30:18 +0000

As many if you know, I have often said that if not the largest, but in the top 5 largest expansions of the scope and size of the Federal Government occurred in the 8 years of the Republican administration (I dare not speak his name, because he and his ilk as as un-American as they [...]

Résumé & CV

Nathan — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:25:03 +0000

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Talmud Tidbit: What is a Koy?

Nathan — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:25:34 +0000

A randomish note in tractate Nazir 34a: the koy. An animal that is speculated to be one of the following: off spring of a he-goat and a hind a distinct species, not a hybrid unknown if it is a domesticated animal (בהמה) or a wild animal (חיה). it is indeed kosher The implication in this Gemara revolves around a “bet” [...]

aquaDRAMA update

Nathan — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:53:48 +0000

I have not posted on aquaDRAMA in a long time! Here are some of the things that have changes over the last couple months: Some kind of strange slime as growing on the back of the tank, and when I tried to remove it there was a serious decline in oxygen levels in the tank. This resulted [...]

War by Other Means — Building Complete and Balanced Capabilities for Counterinsurgency

Nathan — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:34:58 +0000

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 Other [...]

Mexico w/Idan

Nathan — Sun, 18 Apr 2004 04:04:14 +0000

Idan has been traveling through Mexico for over a month and was around the Cancun area. I looked online and found a good deal to go visit him for a 4 days weekend. In total the trip would cost about 300$. I figured staying in a resort would give him nice break from his backpacking [...]

Locarno International Film Festival 2003

Nathan — Sun, 10 Aug 2003 16:32:26 +0000

This trip has 2 parts – to hang out in Zurich and see my family members there and be at the ETH and then to go to the opening of the Locarno International File Festival in Locarno, Switzerland in the Kanton if Tessin.The few days I spent at the start of the week in Zurich [...]