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Bob Dylan - Sweetheart Like YouFor those of you who missed this yesterday let me redirect you to Gerard’s recently reformatted and still excellent website, American Digest. One of yesterday’s posts, “Two riders were approaching:” All Along the Watchtower and Isaiah, contains a TED video titled Why Bob Dylan Won the Nobel Prize  - definitely worth your time to view. The last time we talked about Dylan around here was when he received the Medal of Freedom – from President Obama. I doubt he ever would have received that honor if the tenders knew who Dylan really was. But...

Well, the neighborhood bully, he’s just one man His enemies say he’s on their land They got him outnumbered about a million to one He got no place to escape to, no place to run He’s the neighborhood bully The neighborhood bully just lives to survive He’s criticized and condemned for being alive He’s not supposed to fight back, he’s supposed to have thick skin He’s supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in He’s the neighborhood bully The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land He’s wandered the earth an exiled man Seen his...

The Times of Israel reports: “I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now,” Bob Dylan sang in 1964’s “My Back Pages.”

What's plain is that the Gaza flotilla's nominal purpose, delivering "humanitarian" supplies to Gaza, was secondary to the aim of provoking a confrontation. The Gaza flotilla turned down an Israeli offer to unload the six boats and deliver the goods to Gaza by truck; it ignored repeated warnings that it would not be allowed to reach Gaza. Its spokesmen said they would insist on "breaking Israel's siege," as one of them put it. View the local newscoverage of BlueStar working to support Israel. Listen & Buy Bob Dylan's "Neighborhood Bully" MP3 Today! Lyrics below. Audio from the IDF soldiers who...

Here is the beginning of wisdom: In a war of words, the man with the gun always wins. If you do not learn this lesson, you are guaranteed a short life or a foolish one. Does this mean violence is better than non-violence? Heaven forbid. Violence is a curse upon the earth, and anyone who dies in passive Christ-like resistance to violent men is a martyr who should be remembered in our prayers. But unless you want to be the martyr, who is just as dead despite being right, I advise you in all sincerity to either get out of...