This post actually started as a comment on a friend’s blog, but it turned into a bit of a diatribe that seemed to deserve its own post. My apologies to those of you for whom the references to day-old bagels, cement boats and opportunivores will make no sense. And I apologize also for the corny, overblown metaphors. I’ll hopefully be writing in Arabic soon, which I’m sure will sufficiently alienate what audience I had in the fist place, if that’s any consolation. Here it goes anyway: (more…)