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My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Student |
| Location | United States |
| Introduction | An undergrad student's musings on politics and history in the Levant. Included are travel logs and interviews. |
| Interests | The Middle East, Policy, Politics, History, Music, Comedy, Art, Satire. |
| Favorite movies | Sleeper, Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask, Love and Death, Take the Money and Run, History of the World Part One, Blazzing Saddles, Saving Private Ryan, Foul Play, Forrest Gump, Young Frankenstien, All the President's Men, Day of the Jackal, Dr. Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, The Falcon and the Snowman, Animal House, Spaceballs, Dog Day Afternoon, Boiler Room, Syriana, Munich, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, Trading Places, Comming to America, Dr. Strangelove, Protocol, The Odessa File, Arthur, Blow, Patton, The Graduate, Airplane!, This Is Spinal Tap, The Godfather (parts I and II), Wall Street, Lord of War, Hot Shots, Barbarians at the Gate, When Harry Met Sally, Hannah and Her Sisters, Born on the Fourth of July, The Deerhunter, Caddyshack, Heartbreak Ridge, The Boys From Brazil, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Duck Soup, Naked Gun, Full Metal Jackat, Royal Tenenbaums, Pleasantville, Advice and Consent, Black Book, Enter the Dragon, The Lives of Others, Tadpole |
| Favorite music | The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Blondie, Bob Dylan, The Cars, Chicago, Cream, Aerosmith, Def Leppard, Don Henley, Duran Duran, The Doors, Doobie Brothers, The Eagles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, Jefferson Airplane, Foriegner, Guns N' Roses, PFFR, Heart, Jimi Hendrix, Bad Company, Electric Light Orchestra, Dire Sraights, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Who, The Scorpions, Paul McCartney, Wings, Rush, Boston, The Rolling Stones, Ozzy Osbourne, Steely Dan, The Steve Miller Band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Styx, ZZ Top, Arab Music, Bob Seger, Simon & Garfunkle, Stillwater, Yes, The Clash, The Guess Who, Sugarloaf |
| Favorite books | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Eastward to Tartary, Imperial Grunts, The Comming Anarchy, Blow the House Down, See No Evil, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Diplomacy, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, From Beirut to Jerusalem, The Prince, The Portable Machiavelli, The Persian Puzzle, Exodus, The White House Years, Asad, The Arabists, A Peace to End All Peace, A Fist In The Hornet's Nest, The Arab Israeli Wars, Anarchy State and Utopia, Resource Wars, The Shield of Achilles, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands A Pagan Ethos, Petrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq, and the Future of the Dollar, Machiavelli's Virtue, On War, The Leviathan, The Grand Chessboard, The Conservative Soul: How we lost it how to get it back, The J Curve, Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World, The Shia Revival, The World's Most Dangerous Places |
Which is easier to make a model airplane out of and why: a banana peel or a wet sock?
Banana peel, simply because when it crashes in burns it smells a hell of a lot better than a sock.