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Dr. Abuelaish, the author of the book, has suffered in ways that are awful to contemplate. The book explores the doctor and his family's history, how he achieved what he has, who his family was and how he has reacted to what has happened along with some ruminations on how the Israeli/Palestinian peace process can move forward.

1491 - New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus by Charles C. Mann explores what was known as of 2005 or so about the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus. The book shows that just about everything I was taught about the Indians wasn't so much wrong as misleading.

There have been plenty of books on the financial crises but most aren't quite as entertaining and, to be frank, potty mouthed, as this one. Matt Taibbi is a muck racking reporter for the Rolling Stone who, I suspect, will be the first up against the wall when our corporate overlords decide they can stop even pretending to care about the rule of law. The book lays out some of the facts about how exactly a bunch of insanely greedy evil doers destroyed our economy with the active help of 'our' government. I can't say these folks are criminals because we live in a criminal state where the evil doers simply have the laws changed to make their acts legal. In this blog article I look at the part of his book that deals with the mortgage crises.

Anarchy Alive by Uri Gordon is an overview of the modern Anarchist movement. Dr. Gordon is an active member of the Anarchy scene and he wrote this book from his perspective as an activist. The book attempts to explain the characteristics of the modern Anarchist movement and the issues Dr. Gordon thinks it needs to address.

What is free will? This book presents the views of four different philosophers on the topic. The book defines free will via a question - what are the prerequisites for someone to be held morally responsible for their actions? What is especially great about this book is that the authors could see each other's sections in the book so that as the book progresses each author can refer to what the authors in the sections before them said. Then at the end each of the four authors gets another chapter in which they can refer fully to what the other three authors said and respond. I especially liked the fact that the authors really engaged with each other's points rather than just throwing stones at each other. Below I explore the key points that each of the authors made and why I'm not fully buying any of it.

It's voting time again. I still don't know why I bother. But here I am. Scroll down to see details about why I am voting the way I list.

• Initiative Measure No. 1053 - No

• Initiative Measure No. 1082 - No

• Initiative Measure No. 1098 - No

• Initiative Measure No. 1100 - No

• Initiative Measure No. 1105 - No

• Initiative Measure No. 1107 - No

• Referendum Bill No. 52 - No

• Amendment to the State Constitution Senate Joint Resolution No. 8225 - Yes

• Amendment to the State Constitution Engrossed Substitute House Joint Resolution No. 4220 - No

• Charter Amendment No. 1 Amendments to the Preamble - No

• Charter Amendment No. 2 Amendment of Section 690 - Campaign Finance - Yes

• Charter Amendment No. 3 Amendment of Section 890 and New Section 897 - Collective Bargaining - No

• Proposition No. 1 Sales and Use Tax for Criminal Justice, Fire Protection, and Other Government Purposes - No

• Seattle School District No. 1 Proposition No. 1 Supplemental Operations Levy - No

• United States Senator - Patty Murray

• United States Representative Congressional District No. 7 - Jim McDermott

• State Representative Legislative District No. 46 - Position 2 - Phyllis G. Kenney

• Seattle Municipal Court Judge Position No. 1 - Edsonya Charles

• Seattle Municipal Court Judge Position No. 6 - Karen Donohue

• State Supreme Court Justice Position No. 6 - Richard B. Sanders