Category Archives: Blasts from the past

The Missionary position

Posted on 02/03/2013 by Meryl Yourish

Found this while looking for something on my site. It’s from September 17, 2003. The missionary position I’m pretty sure I terrified a young, just-out-of-missionary school Mormon this afternoon. I heard a soft knock on my door and voices, leading … Continue reading →

Posted in Blasts from the past, Religion | 3 Comments

Retrieving XyWrite files

Posted on 01/14/2013 by Meryl Yourish

Yep, that’s what I’m going to be doing this week–retrieving files I wrote using XyWrite, which was a fabulous word processing program written by some of the guys that brought you Atex, the typesetting system I learned in the early … Continue reading →

Posted in Blasts from the past, Computers, Writing | 4 Comments

Happy 10th

Posted on 04/22/2011 by Soccerdad

I have written before about my evolution as a blogger. But that was mostly a history of the media I used. Not the activism I practiced. I guess it started in 1987, when I got my first letter to the … Continue reading →

Posted in AP Media Bias, Blasts from the past, Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Israeli Double Standard Time, Media Bias, The Exception Clause | Comments Off

Why is Meryl looking back?

Posted on 03/26/2011 by Meryl Yourish

You might have noticed that I’ve been putting up posts from my past. That’s because in April, this blog will celebrate its tenth anniversary. I’ve been blogging since before Instapundit—since before anyone in the current JBlogosphere, in fact. And this … Continue reading →

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And now a word

Posted on 01/15/2011 by Meryl Yourish

This post was originally published on March 9, 2002. Shortly before that, I was discussing how awesome it was to get several hundred visits a day. Adil Farooq and Glenn Reynolds (Adil first, then Glenn) were responsible for getting me … Continue reading →

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My first Blogathon

Posted on 01/15/2011 by Meryl Yourish

In the summer of 2002, I had just moved to Richmond, VA, and was talked into taking part in the Blogathon, a 24-hour blog-posting marathon designed to raise money for the charity of your choice. This was my 10:30 a.m. … Continue reading →

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A question for the relativists

Posted on 01/14/2011 by Meryl Yourish

This post was first published on April 2, 2002. It occurs to me that I need one simple question answered, and only one. Let’s for the moment drop all of my arguments about the Palestinian suicide bombings, the refugee problems; … Continue reading →

Posted in Blasts from the past, Terrorism | 5 Comments

Arafat phone transcripts revealed!

Posted on 01/13/2011 by Meryl Yourish

This was first posted on March 30, 2002, during the seige of Arafat’s headquarters in Ramallah. Eat your heart out, Drudge. Glenn, ya snooze, ya lose. Yourish.com has obtained the actual transcripts of Yasser Arafat’s phone calls to world leaders … Continue reading →

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Yes, I am a Jew, Part 2

Posted on 01/12/2011 by Meryl Yourish

This post was originally posted on March 10, 2002. (It’s the post that started my schism with my left-leaning blog circle of that time.) About a week and a half ago, I found a brief mention of my first essay … Continue reading →

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Yes, I am a Jew

Posted on 01/11/2011 by Meryl Yourish

This post was first published on February 27, 2002 For the past couple of months, I’ve noticed that Qatar turns up regularly in my web stat demographics. It may be a spider; it may be a spammer using someone else’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-Semitism, Blasts from the past | Tagged , | 9 Comments