The Pretext

My father has lost his teeth, now I can bite him


I’m going to try to be very careful in my thoughts and judgments. Information moves very fast.

We are living at unequaled speed. Two revolutions in two Arab nations in less than two months, where before everything had been frozen in time for more than 35 years. It’s as if God, if He exists, hit pause on an image in that part of the world and forgot to press play. As long as oil flowed at a steady stream and a pseudo politico-religious stability...