tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61373662009-06-16T12:08:08.893-07:00Ehsoonhaand everything elseEhsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-78796793182442137212009-06-02T01:33:00.002-07:002009-06-02T01:34:48.807-07:00Mousavi, 1979 revolution's last hurrah.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-7879679318244213721?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-28384574270025709592009-06-02T01:33:00.001-07:002009-06-02T01:33:18.586-07:00Iran, Where Freedom is so ConsequentialI love the fact that there&#39;s a Mousavi and a Karoubi; a choice, but<br>without primaries, the cost of that choice can be a Ahmadinezad.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-2838457427002570959?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-75746800985799537272009-05-30T06:47:00.000-07:002009-05-30T06:51:02.598-07:00نوبهاری<div style="text-align: right;">عمری دکر بباید بعد از فراق ما را<br />کاین عمر صرف کردیم اندر امیدواری<br /><a href="http://rira.ir/rira/php/?page=view&amp;mod=classicpoems&amp;obj=poem&amp;id=10157"><br />سعدی</a><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-7574680098579953727?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-25033882882292484422009-05-10T00:13:00.001-07:002009-05-10T00:13:36.305-07:00Do you remember the night with the blue moon were everything was white?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-2503388288229248442?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-65668448564781371352009-05-09T00:56:00.001-07:002009-05-09T00:56:23.856-07:00Cori and Gigi :)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-6566844856478137135?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-54114161700978688442009-05-05T10:48:00.001-07:002009-05-05T10:48:16.241-07:00My fishes stayed up the night with me.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-5411416170097868844?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-86882486843909544182009-05-02T13:21:00.001-07:002009-05-02T13:21:30.631-07:00You make my day; everyday.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-8688248684390954418?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-83732636890310351782009-04-25T18:30:00.001-07:002009-04-25T18:30:37.689-07:00You said when you walked through those halls, seeing so many people <br>involved and running for a single patient, doctors become a small part <br>of the whole things.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-8373263689031035178?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-8440864031977133652009-04-25T18:22:00.000-07:002009-04-25T18:23:01.003-07:00You get into another dimension of humanity when you take care of <br>someone else.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-844086403197713365?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-86345342266998695132009-04-25T10:36:00.000-07:002009-04-25T10:37:04.560-07:00As we turned the turns of Pacifica, you said you enjoy Earth more than <br>any other planet. So manythings I don&#39;t know about you!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-8634534226699869513?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-62161486535857157352009-04-22T20:57:00.000-07:002009-04-22T21:10:31.065-07:00War MusicAfter a long hot day, standing on top of a hill, as the approaching darkness of night and the gushing mist made it difficult, but not impossible, to make out the people passing by, I had two choice; either to think about death or a weird play we saw not long ago. To my surprise, I thought of the latter, the <a href="http://www.act-sf.org/089/warmusic/index.html">War Music</a>, allegedly a modern rendition of the Iliad. It was one of those plays that you either will love it or passionately hate, but I felt neither; well it was too long and they talked too much, making me numb and exhausted to feel anything or to form an opinion. Feeling the mist on my face and my vision impaired however, my opinion was formed: I loved it. It reminded me of the time that I read or wrote pieces that made no sense, but had some elements that barely promised a notion of intelligence, and that promise alone made them beautiful <span style="font-style: italic;">for me</span>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-6216148653585715735?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-47634350487004319242009-04-21T21:17:00.001-07:002009-04-21T21:17:49.231-07:00To thread the needle from this side or that.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-4763435048700431924?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-87143435752882749842009-04-21T20:26:00.000-07:002009-04-21T20:27:16.160-07:00I felt I was in your skin,<br />smiled your smile,<br />made your hand gesture, fingers tilted downward.<br />Should I have called you then?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-8714343575288274984?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-24694462946532470092009-04-05T21:54:00.001-07:002009-04-05T21:54:43.520-07:00Only a true friend reminds you how lucky you are.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-2469446294653247009?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-68160270298118694932009-02-02T15:16:00.000-08:002009-02-02T15:18:12.877-08:00Most people, when presented with a chance to admit their mistake, will just act rude and hostile, unless you stay in their faces. Sad world we live in.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-6816027029811869493?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-21577299004458991692009-01-21T21:50:00.000-08:002009-01-21T21:52:32.702-08:00The First Poem I Understood: Saint Judas<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" name="KonaFilter"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;">For the longest time, none of the poems I read in English made sense to me until this one by James Wright:<br /><br />When I went out to kill myself, I caught<br />A pack of hoodlums beating up a man.<br />Running to spare his suffering, I forgot<br />My name, my number, how my day began,<br />How soldiers milled around the garden stone<br />And sang amusing songs; how all that day<br />Their javelins measured crowds; how I alone<br />Bargained the proper coins, and slipped away.<br /><br />Banished from heaven, I found this victim beaten,<br />Stripped, kneed, and left to cry. Dropping my rope<br />Aside, I ran, ignored the uniforms:<br />Then I remembered bread my flesh had eaten,<br />The kiss that ate my flesh. Flayed without hope,<br />I held the man for nothing in my arms.</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-2157729900445899169?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-68822179188593860662009-01-19T01:22:00.001-08:002009-01-19T01:22:50.127-08:00دوستدوست خوب کمه، دوست الکی هم خوبه<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-6882217918859386066?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-10299770830042708542009-01-17T13:50:00.001-08:002009-01-17T13:50:52.555-08:00We live in a stupid, stupid world.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-1029977083004270854?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-59437514396453532542008-11-02T17:53:00.000-08:002009-01-17T13:51:51.231-08:00Come Monday'The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral. Returning violence with violence only multiplies violence adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.'<br /><br />Dr. King<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-5943751439645353254?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-38501803453281977982008-09-02T23:11:00.001-07:002008-09-02T23:11:32.753-07:00I really don't like killing spiders; but I do it anyway.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-3850180345328197798?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-79004344154390486552008-08-31T23:24:00.000-07:002009-01-17T13:52:09.862-08:00Perfect MomentsIt's a wonderful thing, a perfect moment.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-7900434415439048655?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-35354822308756599932008-08-31T20:50:00.000-07:002008-08-31T20:53:57.978-07:00Grammar Checker in the CloudWhenever I'm not sure if a phrase I'm writing, I Google a portion of it to see if someone else used it the way I want to use it. It's fast and most of the time accurate since language is how it's used. So it's not hard to imagine that one can create a grammar checker that does just that: compares your text with the Cloud to see if you're using the language the same way.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-3535482230875659993?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-57773385292180827412008-08-23T18:53:00.000-07:002008-08-23T18:57:28.139-07:00بحران زبان<div style="text-align: right;">مطمئن هستم یکی یجایی از پیوند زبان و فکر استنباط کرده که بحران فکر همان بحران زبان است ولی یادم نمی آید که کی<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-5777338529218082741?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-75945701726141496102008-08-02T13:41:00.000-07:002008-08-02T19:14:17.553-07:00Feminist EthicsAfter reading <a href="http://leopold.wilderness.net/unpublished/UNP100.pdf">Mary Raugust's</a> proposal for feminist ethics I filled with a sense of wisdom! That I read something so different and yet so reasonable. It had been a while ...<br /><ol><li>The central priority of ethics is not the concept of individual rights but of relationship with other human beings. </li><li>The principle goal of ethics is not autonomy and liberty of individual humans, rather it is “the giving and receiving of care appropriate to specific persons and their situations.” </li><li>Interdependence over individualism. </li><li>The “other” with whom one deals morally must be distinctly personified and not an impersonal faceless abstraction. </li><li>Moral judgments emerge from actual situations and are not derived by applying logical formulate to general principles. </li><li>Feminist ethics are “accepting rather than transformative.” </li><li>Feminist ethics will be a morality of virtues rather than primarily one of justice. </li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-7594570172614149610?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6137366.post-80998203965219039492008-06-24T09:00:00.000-07:002008-06-24T11:09:22.971-07:00تاملاتی در باب قانون اساسی اسرائیل ۱<div style="text-align: right;">همیشه حسم این بوده که ایران و اسرائیل شباهتشون خیلی زیاده، نه چون گروهی از این دو با جنس مخالف دست نمی‌ده‌ یا بعد از غذا ساکت می‌شینه و دعا می‌خونه و مشکلی نداره که تو معطل نشستی، بلکه بیشتر بدین خاطر که هر دو اونا همت‌شون براینه که هویت خودشون رو بر اساس دین خودشون تعریف کنن.<br />دنباله این کنجکاوی بدین‌جا کشید که کمی به تاریخچه قانون اساسی اسرائیل نگاه کنم. اما قبلش یک نکته.<br /><br />نکته: عجیب نیست که ما این همه روشنفکرهای عرب رو تحویل می‌گیریم درحالیکه جامعه‌ای که اونا ازش برخاستن نه انقدری که ایران هم دموکراسی بسته دغدغه‌ی دموکراسی دارن و نه به دموکراسی شهرت یافتن. اما در عوض کاملا بی‌خیال روشنفکرای اسرائیلی شده‌ایم و از اون مهمتر تقلایی که در آشتی دادن ارزش‌های غربی و تورات کرده‌اند.<br /><br />باری، من هم مانند بقیه‌ی آمریکایی‌ها گمانم بر این بود که هر جامعه‌ی موفقی الگو گرفته از آمریکاست و خب هیچ نمی‌دانستم که انگلیس یک قانون‌اساسی رسمی و تنظیم شده آن‌گونه که قانون‌اساسی آمریکا نوشته شده ندارد. اسرئیل هم چنین است اما به دلایل متفاوتی از انگلیس. قرار بر این بود که این سند تا سال ۱۹۴۸ تهیه شود اما به <a href="http://www.jcpa.org/dje/articles/const-intro-93.htm">گفته</a> الازار (یکی از تینک تنک‌های اسرائیل) در مجلس اول که کارکرد مجلس موسسان نیز داشت، بحث بسیار شد که آیا قانون‌اساسی نوشته شده‌ای تنظیم گردد یا خیر. اما بحث به جایی نرسید چه گروه‌های مذهبی مخالف این ایده بودند که قانونی اساسی‌ای غیر از تورات وجود داشته باشد و البته گروه‌های چپ نیز مطمئن بودند که عقایدشان هیچ انعکاسی در قانون‌اساسی نخواهد یافت پس چه بهتر که قانون‌اساسی‌ای وجود نداشته باشد. نتیجه این شد که دیوید بن گوریون (اولین نخست وزیر اسرائیل) به مجلس موسسان پیشنهاد داد که نوشتن آن به تدریج انجام شود و هر مجلسی می تواند بندی بدان اضافه نماید و یکی از <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Laws_of_Israel">دلایل</a> او این بود که باید منتظر ماند تا عموم یهودیان از سراسر جهان با خانه خود بازگردند. اگر کنجکاوید پیش‌نویس آن <a href="http://www.cfisrael.org//home.html">این‌جاست</a> (با آخرین تغییرات مجلس شانزدهم) که تاکنون ۱۴ قانون تصویب گشته‌اند که از جمله آنان قانون معروفی است که قدس را پایتخت اسرائیل نمود و در سال ۱۹۸۰ تصویب شد.<br />‌ در «هاشمی بدون روتوش» خواندم که خمینی چه اسراری بر این داشت که همه چیز به سرعت شکل گیرد. تحلیل هاشمی این بود که مردم تشنه مشارکت بودند و می‌بایست با رای مردم حکومت و چارچوب مملکت را تعیین کنیم. تحلیل خوشایندی است اما اکنون و بعد از ۳۰ سال آیا انعطاف‌پذیری لازم در آن تعبیه شده بود؟<br /><br />بحث‌های آشنا به کنار، آنچه من واقعا بدان کنجکاو بودم این بود که چگونه اسرائیل توانست خود را دولتی برای یهودیان سازد و هم‌چنان در بین غربیان شناخته شده به دولتی سکولار باشد که دینی را ترویج و ترجیح نمی‌دهد وبازجالب‌تر اینکه همچنان بانی یهودیان خارج از اسرائیل نیز بماند. به گمان من، این از موفقیت‌های اسرائیل است و موفق‌تر آنکه توانست آن را خصوصا در تقابل با کشورهای عرب و همسایه دیکتاتور خود به برگ برنده ساسی-اقتصادی در برابر کشورهای غربی تبدیل کند.<br /><br />الان باید برم سرکار (۱۱ ظهر!) بقیه‌ش باشه برای بعد<br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6137366-8099820396521903949?l=www.ehsoonha.com%2Findex.htm'/></div>Ehsoonhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16293573469167958152noreply@blogger.com0