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Rudi Stettner

Rudi Stettner

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An eclectic mix of politics and world culture that defies easy classification

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  • Can One Be "Good Without G-d?

    Posted on Thursday December 24th, 2009 at 19:08 in my comments

    My daughter and son in law came in yesterday, listening for a good part of their journey to National Public Radio, which had a program on Greg Epstein, a humanist clergyman and authour of "Good Without God", what a billion nonreligious people DO b...

  • Avraham Fried and Modern Miracles

    Posted on Wednesday December 23rd, 2009 at 14:11 in my comments

    I was listening to JM in the AM this morning. JM in the AM, which stands for Jewish music in the morning is a wildly popular program of contemporary Jewish music. In the last 20 years, Jewish religiously oriented music has encompassed the spectrum of...

  • Priest Tells Congregants to Shoplift

    Posted on Tuesday December 22nd, 2009 at 08:57 in my comments

    An Anglican priest in York, England has advised his poor congregants to get through hard times by shoplifting, distinguishing it morally from violent robbery, prostitution and burglary. The Daily Mail reported as follows on the stunning sermon by th...

  • Thoughts of December 25, 1989 and 2009

    Posted on Monday December 21st, 2009 at 18:07 in my comments

    President Obama has put a Christmas deadline on the approval of his health plan in the Senate. Many people of goodwill view the plan as an albatross and a disaster in the making. There is certainly a lot of ego buried in his ostensible altruism...

  • Yankee Doodle, Lorena Bobbitt and Labeling

    Posted on Saturday December 19th, 2009 at 22:21 in my comments

    Yankee Doodle is widely known as an upbeat song of the American Revolution. There are many versions to it, as well as verses. Originally, it started out as a derisive song, adapted from an English folk tune that poked fun at American freedom fight...

  • London "Honor Killer" Gets Life

    Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 14:54 in my comments

    The Swiss passed a ban on minarets, or prayer towers, from which calls to prayer are sounded from loudspeakers. The French have banned hijabs, or head coverings from the public schools.Musically, I like the Muslim prayer chants. They remind me o...

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