My family and I just returned from a two-week trip to Israel, during which we spent a couple of days in the Tel Aviv area. While we were there, we stopped by Dizengoff Square to see the Agam Fountain. The last time I saw it was in the summer of 1986, shortly after it was… Read More »
My family is in the middle of a two-week visit to Israel. Today is my “day off” to spend by myself, and of course, where else would I spend it than at an Internet cafe checking my email :-)? I’m not one of those avid bloggers who must record every detail of his vacation, but I… Read More »
Just sent this letter, mostly written by my wife, to the CEO of Disney World:
I’m trying to hire a senior software engineer for one of the teams I manage. Apparently, my standards are a bit high…
More than 400,000 people have been killed in Darfur since the genocide started in 2003. More than 2.5 million people have been displaced. Five thousand people die each month in the ongoing slaughter. We must stop the killing.
My wife and I each recently received letters from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, our health insurer through my employer. These letters introduced us to a program being run by BCBS which, to put it bluntly, is wrong, wrong, wrong.
I just sent this complaint to Senator Edward Kennedy’s office through the form on his Web site:
I just sent this letter to Black & Decker:
I am fed up with people claiming that the Freedom of Religion of the Catholic church and Boston’s Catholic Charities have been violated by the state’s insistence that they obey anti-discrimination laws. Which part of, “If you want to discriminate, then don’t take the state’s money,” do they not understand?
Why, in this age of tolerance and religious non-discrimination, can’t people figure out how to avoid scheduling conferences on Jewish holidays?