Category Archives: Blasts from the past

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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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Men are a different species

Posted on 01/10/2011 by Meryl Yourish

This post was originally published on January 26, 2002. A couple of days ago, I was in the lunchroom at work, standing in line to pay for my purchase. I work at a college. You need to know that, because … Continue reading →

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Professor Emeritus Moshé Machover, logic and politics

Posted on 09/10/2010 by SnoopyTheGoon

I have stumbled on a new year gift of a kind in the Guardian. It’s a letter by professor Emeritus Moshé Machover, grandly titled “Israel, Jews and the peace process”. The letter is relatively short and is worth reading in … Continue reading →

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Snowy Calvinism

Posted on 02/12/2010 by Soccerdad

In honor of the east coast’s recent deluge of snow, Transterrestial Musings points out a relevant collection of Calvin and Hobbes cartoons. Some people were inspired to follow Calvin’s lead. I suppose I could do without the red food coloring. … Continue reading →

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Twinsday

Posted on 12/10/2009 by Meryl Yourish

This post was originally published on May 19, 2004. The twins are now in second grade, and Twinsday is no more. (It’s been replaced by Gaming Lunch With Sarah, of which I will write more later.) There’s a new day … Continue reading →

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Oh wow, man

Posted on 05/23/2009 by Meryl Yourish

Cheech and Chong are on Mad TV, and, well, I have something to confess: Stoner humor is apparently just as funny today as it was when I was fourteen years old. Either that, or Mad TV’s writers got way better. … Continue reading →

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Memories fade; blog posts remain

Posted on 02/16/2009 by Meryl Yourish

I can’t stop reading my archives. The personal posts, the humor posts, a few of the news posts, but mostly, the old stuff about my life four years ago. Really, it’s fascinating. I mean, I know that four years ago, … Continue reading →

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Unspeakable

Posted on 02/16/2009 by Meryl Yourish

This post was first published on January 12, 2005, during the time when I was working seven days a week. One of those jobs was temping for Kelly Services. Regular readers know I’ve been temping lately. One of my temp … Continue reading →

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Hulk smash election!

Posted on 02/16/2009 by Meryl Yourish

This post was originally published on September 7, 2004. As my regular readers know, the Hulk makes appearances on this blog from time to time. During my time off, I had the opportunity to discuss the election with him. Our … Continue reading →

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Arab anti-Semitism: It’s pandemic

Posted on 02/16/2009 by Meryl Yourish

This post was first published on July 29, 2004. It is just as relevant today as it was four and a half years ago. And the reason I’m republishing it: The Egyptians are calling Avigdor Lieberman “racist.” For the past … Continue reading →

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The Stan Lee [Hulk] Solution

Posted on 06/14/2008 by Meryl Yourish

This post was first published May 2, 2002. Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that from time to time, I’ve been taking the Hulk perspective on various problems, specifically the Middle East. Well, when you take a hard … Continue reading →

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My seventh blogiversary

Posted on 04/22/2008 by Meryl Yourish

Seven years ago today—months before Instapundit existed—I launched Yourish.com. Here’s what I wrote in that first post: Blogging. The new media term taking the Net by storm. Short for Weblog, to Blog is to put up a web site that … Continue reading →

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Legal approaches to prevent offense to islam

Posted on 03/02/2008 by Soccerdad

Michelle Malkin has an item today about demands from the Gulf to pass laws forbidding the insulting of Islam. Combined with the recent re-publication of the Danish Mo cartoons, these unacceptable acts of free speech have Muslim “scholars” demanding that … Continue reading →

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