Uncle Garabed’s Notebook (Aug. 23, 2014)
Attention, Poetasters! I believe that a poem ought to be translated in the way a poet himself would have composed it, had he belonged to the nation for which he is being translated. …Henrik Ibsen […]
Attention, Poetasters! I believe that a poem ought to be translated in the way a poet himself would have composed it, had he belonged to the nation for which he is being translated. …Henrik Ibsen […]
Grocery shopping frenzy On occasion, I may accompany my wife to the supermarket, but only if she mandates my attention. Otherwise, I run and hide, like I used to do when my mom was taking […]
Washington has long-suffered from unethical politicians, but the prize for the top hypocrite on an Armenian issue goes to former Cong. Richard Gephardt who served as House Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995 and Minority […]
With pup-Turk (Azeri) corpses piling up, the boneheads in Baku are probably scratching their heads as to what might be their next steps. It seems the ten day span over which small bands of Azerbaijan’s […]
Back in high school, all the guys wanted to be like Charlie. He was the All-American Boy, captain of the football team, a 3-sport star, “couldn’t-do-anything-wrong” sort of fellow who had the world by the […]
Delivery Guaranteed Death has got something to be said for it: There’s no need to get out of bed for it: Wherever you may be, They bring it to you, free. —Kingsley Amis Swedish […]
The international media is replete these days with scandalous stories about European and American politicians being wined and dined in Azerbaijan and Turkey, for self-serving ulterior motives. The latest such exposé, published by the Houston […]
It’s interesting how news with disparate topics, time, and place is sometimes ironically related. It seems Abe Foxman and his Anti-Defamation League (ADL) have their panties up in a bunch over the venom being spewed […]
Forbearance Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad, for any other goodness is usually merely inertia or lack of will-power. … La Rochefoucauld Armenian Proverb When […]
At first, I thought it was a misprint. Wouldn’t you think so if you saw a college basketball score that read 116-12? Seems the host team Jaguars set an NCAA record by scoring the game’s […]
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