Shlomo’s Blog

The hardest questions that we have today concern the junction of science and morality.  Should there be a limit on experiments due to moral or religious considerations.  If so, then what should the limits be. 
What about the goals of the scientific inquiry?  If the goal is to save as many lives as possible then can [...]

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In my last blog I mentioned the justification of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  With that in mind I would like to point out that as much as I support the decision to use these weapons I would oppose a US cultural center to be built a few hundred feet [...]

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One of the interesting facts of history is that Churchill never blamed Chamberlain for his woes in assuming office in 1940.  This is an interesting fact since the situation that Great Britain found itself could very easily be put at the door of Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement.
I bring this up because it shows the [...]

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The Tenth Commandment is one of the most inconvenient that I can think of.  All the others are relatively easy.  I know that most people can survive with stealing, murdering, etc.  But not to be jealous of another’s good fortune, either socially or economically is extremely hard.
There are whole industries based on the violation of this commandment.  Look at any news stand [...]

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My wife and I are going on a week’s cruise to Bermuda today.  I realize that this will mean that I will not be able to blog as much as I will want to while we are at sea.  (The cruise lines charges by the minute to use the web.)
So here are some thoughts to [...]

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I have always had the opinion that when I hear a story that seems too good to be true I should check it out even more that usual.
Thus when I heard the latest about Sharrod making what seemed to be racist remarks I held my piece.  At first glance I understood that the woman was [...]

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I was thinking about the problem of the homeless.  I began to think, how did it happen and how to solve it.
As I began to investigate the issue I made some startling discoveries.  That the problem was not due to the free market system.  That these are not people who are simply down on their [...]

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One of the things that strike me as we observe the fast is non-victim-hood of the day.
What I mean is that it is true that we Jews have been victims throughout our history we have never behaved as victims.  That means we do not allow our victim hood to overcome our actions.
What is victim hood [...]

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When I was in high school I got arrested at an illegal demonstration.  I believe that we were protesting for the right to sleep in a park or some such dumb things.
When my parents came to bail me out of the jail I referred to the Miami-Dade police as a group of fascists.  My mother [...]

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Looking over my last post there is something that I feel that I did not make quite clear.  The fact is that I do not regard businesses as intrinsically good or bad.  A business has one goal.  That is to make a profit.
This is different from government.  A government is not interested in profit.  Ony [...]

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