Instead of having actual greenery, which is part of Nature, you have fake greenery, which is antithetical to Nature.
Even going to the pool didn't really change things. Felt like you were enveloped in warm water either way. Going to the kiddie pool was almost like climbing into a hot tub.
--An older African American man's response to some banal comment I made about the heat while passing him on the street.
They use rose water and lemon zest, or so Windy tells me that's the word for lemon peel. Walid and Jamia.
Elena Kagan called former Israeli Supreme Court President Aharon Barak "my judicial hero". Israeli writer and activist Gideon Spiro wrote the piece "Judge Barak" shortly after Barak retired. An excerpt:
Barak was the "judicial commander in chief", who legitimized almost all the injustices of the occupation. He has led Israel's judicial system into the role of indentured servant to the security forces – the IDF, the Shin Bet (domestic secret service), the Mossad and the settlers. He justified shooting at civilian populations; legalized land confiscations, home demolitions and other forms of collective punishment; approved administrative detentions (imprisonment without trial), the Apartheid wall, the distortions of the Occupation's military tribunals - and torture (yes, in spite of the 1999 verdict that ostensibly forbade torture, he actually left the door wide open to continue them under a "necessity" clause, and indeed they have continued in full force). The Grand Finale was his last verdict, in which he has imprinted yet another Kosher stamp, this time on the policy of extrajudicial executions ( a.k.a. "targeted killings").
Frank Menetrez in "Elena Kagan’s Harvard: Golden Age or Reign of Error?" states that Norman Finkelstein was right to accuse Alan Dershowitz of plagiarism from Joan Peters. One "smoking gun" is identical errors that Dershowitz makes. Menetrez states:
I looked at one of the passages identified by Finkelstein, a long quotation from Mark Twain, and found that Dershowitz’s version of the quotation and the version in the book Dershowitz was accused of plagiarizing [from Peters] contained 20 identical errors in a mere 21 lines of text. Some of the errors were large (such as the omission of 87 pages of text without an ellipsis) and some were small (such as altered or missing words or punctuation), but the cumulative weight of the evidence was overwhelming. There was no way Dershowitz could have independently generated exactly those 20 errors -- he must have copied them. It was an open-and-shut case.
Here are the relevant PDFs of Dershowitz, Peters and Twain's writings so people can indepently verify Menetrez's accusation.