FROM MY NOTEBOOKS ********************************** Loyalty or subservience to authority is not patriotism but fascism. * My guess is, we produce more speechifiers, sermonizers and pundits per capita than any other nation on earth. * Who speaks today in the name of the people, and when I say people I mean not the dead but the living. * The most important questions in life are destined to remain unanswered. Even belief systems that pretend to have all the answers are willing to acknowledge this fact. There is a well-known story about a theologian who on informing the Pope that he had written a 1000-page treatise explaining the mystery of the Holy Trinity was ordered to “burn it!” # LIVE AND LEARN ********************************** Until very recently I wasn’t aware of the fact that fund-raising is a profitable enterprise and that some chief executive officers of charitable organizations are paid million-dollar salaries. * Wee are more civilized. Our charitable organizations don’t have chief executive officers; even more to the point, they are accountable only to God, which in practice, means no one. * Question: Do CEOs of charitable organizations contribute to charitable organizations? # SCENARIOS ****************************** On the day Azeris open their borders we will bleed from three open wounds: East, West, and North. * At the present rate of exodus, they will not have to fight us to reoccupy their lands, they will just walk in. * I am a comfort to our enemies? What about our dividers? What is their message? Let me guess: “No need to kill us, we plan to commit suicide.” What else? #