tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56356042011-07-14T00:10:25.371-05:00ivyJewsA distinctive voice on matters political, philosophical, sexual and rabbinical...Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comBlogger1021100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1075757535880479462004-02-02T16:32:00.000-05:002004-02-02T16:33:54.840-05:00Israeli rap group "Subliminal" coming to America?
Word on the street is that the Israeli rap group Subliminal will be playing at a few college campuses this spring. I heard they are hitting Rutgers April 1, and perhaps Harvard and NYU as well. If anyone knows any more information on the locations and dates, post a response.
FYI - Subliminal is an acclaimed rap group from Israel, consisting of Alexander the Greatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1070912007422624692003-12-08T14:33:00.000-05:002003-12-08T14:34:29.983-05:00War and Peace
This article on Hamas' desire to continue suicide attackes because the peaceniks in Israel are growing is a direct indication that the more Israelis strive for peace, the more the terrorists strive for war. It is hopeless to reach any peace with that relationship.Alexander the Greatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1069822870941055682003-11-26T00:01:00.000-05:002003-11-26T00:01:42.343-05:00Proof that in America you can make money off of anything
Got your appetite all worked up for that delicious turkey and stuffing?
Is your mouth salivating yet for the cranberry sauce and gravy?
Well, here's something that will really get your stomach going on Thanksgiving - although probably because you're about to puke it out: Turkey/Gravy flavored SodaAlexander the Greatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1068773564928539622003-11-13T20:32:00.000-05:002003-11-13T20:33:04.076-05:00Coming this Spring on Fox: Yasser Millionaire
Think of the following two "facts" and how they are related to the third fact:
1 ]"A network of Israeli barriers, meant to keep away militants, has crippled the Palestinian economy."
2] "The international community sends about $1 billion a year to the Palestinians. The funds are used for humanitarian projects and help prop up the Palestinian Alexander the Greatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1067490093755442862003-10-30T00:01:00.000-05:002003-10-30T00:01:51.846-05:00A bad ending to a great conference: the record set straight.Nelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299353255438219483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1066697254269279492003-10-20T19:47:00.000-05:002003-10-20T23:42:02.856-05:00Bloom asks "why you?" to YU
Harold 'cant go a minute without bashing everything post-modern' Bloom, product "of a very poor, Yiddish-speaking family in the old east Bronx," has decided to bequeath his literary estate to St. Michael's, a small Catholic university in Vermont. Yeshiva University president Richard Joel personally vented his frustration to yours truly early this summer over what he Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1066245591982892442003-10-15T14:19:00.000-05:002003-10-15T14:22:03.753-05:00And Who Said the Berlin Police Were No Longer Protecting the Jews...?
German Teaches [His] Dog [Named] Adolf to Give Hitler Salute...all this on the day I decided to spend next semester in Deutschland.Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1066179405787064912003-10-14T19:56:00.000-05:002003-10-14T19:59:04.863-05:00"Much Ado About Busing"
Egged, Israel's major bus company, has attempted to open a new busline in the ultra-orthodox neighborhood of Beit Shemesh. On this bus, unlike the overwhelming majority of Egged buses, men and women not only sit separately, but they also board the bus through separate doors. Feminist Letty Cottin Pogrebin decries the practice because of the "obvious echoes of blacks Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07143365328602060867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1066160445720757672003-10-14T14:40:00.000-05:002003-10-14T18:07:10.933-05:00Arguing for Argument's Sake...ad absurdum
Blogger Nelson aptly linked to the Wieseltier-Halevi debate on TNR online. Aside from the elegant prose, what one ultimately garners from this exchange is that all moderate positions along the Israeli political spectrum have collapsed into a single point of convergence, at least with regards to actual policy. The joke is that TNR actually calls this Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1066091164386586652003-10-13T19:26:00.000-05:002003-10-13T19:26:35.856-05:00Wieseltier vs. Halevi on the Israeli-Palestinian Situation: definitely worth the read. Nelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299353255438219483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1065901717218759192003-10-11T14:48:00.000-05:002003-10-13T19:25:05.186-05:00Gray Davis' Advice for his Successor...
My personal favorite: #3.Nelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299353255438219483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1065808573241506862003-10-10T12:56:00.000-05:002003-10-10T12:56:39.210-05:00Syrian Hypocrisy
"If there is a double standard in this Organization it is that while some states are afforded the right to protect their citizens, Israel too often is sent the message that its citizens are not worthy of protection. If there is a double standard, it is that some states are able to support terrorism with impunity, while those defending against it are called to account. If there Nelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299353255438219483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1065115635379602032003-10-02T12:27:00.000-05:002003-10-02T13:11:28.790-05:00Though Rabbi Dr. seems to work, is Rabbi Sergeant even possible?
A great example , courtesy of my father, of a conflict between Jewish law and military procedure:
"U.S. Air Force pilots practice weekly and are psychologically ready to shoot down civilian airliners in any new attack on America like Sept. 11, the general in charge of domestic defense said on Thursday...'This is our last resort. Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1065042718405110232003-10-01T16:11:00.000-05:002003-10-01T16:12:50.416-05:00The historical importance of October 2 (to Jews and others alike):
1187 - Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders
1853 - Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land
1869 - Mahatma Karamchand Ghandi, Porbandar Kathiawad India, pacifist, is born
1890 - Groucho Marx, [Julius], NYC, comedian (Marx Bros, You Bet Your Life), is born
1944 - Nazis crush Warsaw Uprising killing 250,000 people
Nelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299353255438219483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1064979076119416272003-09-30T22:31:00.000-05:002003-09-30T22:35:28.640-05:00Noting the Obvious
Jpost has the latest: "Three men convicted of attempted murder for planning to bomb an Arab girls' school on the Mount of Olives last year were sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison by the Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday." While fanatical terrorists on the Israeli side used to get me unbelievably frustrated, I now realize that the inevitable existence of such Baruch Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1064454757989931382003-09-24T20:52:00.002-05:002003-09-24T20:52:37.396-05:00Arab-Israeli Endgame?
After sharing dinner with Aharon Barak, Chief Justice of Israel's Supreme Court, last night in New Haven, I have begun to entertain thoughts concerning Israel's grand strategy regarding the security fence going up around the territories (though not because of anything he said- in fact he could not comment on the issue because it is before his court).
I have to admit that INelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299353255438219483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1064454745276922132003-09-24T20:52:00.001-05:002003-09-24T20:52:24.676-05:00Negotiations with Terrorists...
Another issue that Barak refused to comment on is the proposed trade of 400 Arab (mostly terrorist) detainees, possibly including Marwan Barghouti, mastermind of the current campaign to destroy Israel and kill its civilians, for the bodies of three kidnapped soldiers and possibly 2 live Israelis. This poses a very difficult strategic and humanitarian problem; I Nelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299353255438219483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1064454723356152182003-09-24T20:52:00.000-05:002003-09-24T20:52:02.770-05:00Arafat and the KGB
Monday's Wall Street Journal published an incredible account of Arafat's 30-year connections to the KGB written by Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking intelligence officer to ever have defected from the former Soviet bloc. A notable excerpt:
"'I invented the hijackings [of passenger planes],' Arafat bragged when I first met him at his PLO headquarters in Beirut in the earlyNelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299353255438219483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1064454278544757972003-09-24T20:44:00.000-05:002003-09-24T20:51:30.676-05:00Shana Tova!
From Moshe Katsav: "Israel has been suffering from terrorist activities since the beginning of Zionism and we believe that only a determined fight and international cooperation in the political, military, economic and judicial fields can annihilate terrorism." Am Yisrael Chai.Nelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299353255438219483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1064349599151943712003-09-23T15:39:00.000-05:002003-09-23T15:40:28.253-05:00Makes You Think Twice About Hallucinogens
Check out this Article. Damn!!JLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17701633013588018297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1063920997073354032003-09-18T16:36:00.000-05:002003-09-18T18:39:12.640-05:00A couple of points of dissension with Larisa...
Larisa claims that there is a substantial amount of racism which, at the very least, is relevant to debates over affirmative action. She may be right about the racism, but her arguments didnt convince me about the relevancy to affirmative action. Her two examples came from the police force and real estate landlords, both lower middle class jobs Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1063749974606956502003-09-16T17:06:00.000-05:002003-09-16T17:06:14.810-05:00It's About Time
Today the US finally announced its intention to cut loan guarantees to Israel for use in constructing further settlements. While an eventual solution must make allowance for the permanent communities the Israelis have established in areas such as Efrat or Har Etzion, the Sharon government has to come to the realization that peace can only be reached on political terms. The JLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17701633013588018297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1063510349892462752003-09-13T22:32:00.000-05:002003-09-13T22:33:10.466-05:00Fresh out the Kitchen
R. Kelly has had his share of personal trials and tribulations. He's handled all of the allegations pretty stupidly, but this tops them all:
``People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts,'' Kelly tells Blender magazine in its October issue. ``They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a Alexander the Greatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1063402913970269242003-09-12T16:41:00.000-05:002003-09-12T16:42:05.600-05:00We Didn't Start the Fire
Awesome website for history buffs and Billy Joel fans. Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1063393345371408082003-09-12T14:02:00.000-05:002003-09-12T14:02:25.283-05:00For all you atom-smashers and zoologists out there, this one's a treat. Nelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299353255438219483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1063324709485513582003-09-11T18:58:00.000-05:002003-09-11T18:58:29.380-05:00More from the RIAAA
A Columbia student is being sued by the RIAA for sharing files. The school, though they tried, could not legally avoid releasing her name. Read the article here.Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07143365328602060867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1062768122166616372003-09-05T08:22:00.000-05:002003-09-05T08:22:02.193-05:00Sit back and enjoy the ride
Verlyn Klinkenborg's editorial in yesterday's Times on the peculiarities of the commuter train is not to be missed... As a Long Islander and a New Havenite, I can appreciate this.Nelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299353255438219483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1062733038052624922003-09-04T22:37:00.000-05:002003-09-04T23:29:07.260-05:00Never again...
Am Yisrael Chai. [For goodies, see this.]Nelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299353255438219483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1062732975553091642003-09-04T22:36:00.000-05:002003-09-04T23:19:54.110-05:00What do we want? When do we want it?
So apparently Yale locals 34 & 35 "want a contract, want a contract, hey hey hey, right now." In fact, they are so committed to finding an amicable solution to the latest round of negotiations between arguably the nation's most disparate labor bedfellows that they find it entirely appropriate to force the first cancellation of the much-anticipated annual Nelsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299353255438219483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1062729129570668882003-09-04T21:32:00.000-05:002003-09-04T22:29:21.363-05:00"Give me more breast"
Fantastic article in WaPo about 77 yr old Hugh Hefner and Playboy magazine. I'll pick out a few of the best parts:
On the Girls' Moral Scruples: "So she went to the tryout, which took place in a room over a Cleveland bar, and she posed topless, wearing just the bottom of her bikini. She was a little nervous at first but she figured, 'What hasn't a guy seen before?' and thenYedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1062540564394759752003-09-02T17:09:00.000-05:002003-09-02T17:09:43.620-05:00Redeeming a Captive
The story of Jonathan Pollard emphasizes American Jews' and Israel's empathy when put in contrast to the Arabs'. Two decades ago, Pollard was sentenced to life for spying on America for Israel. The typical sentence for spying for an ally is 2 years, and yet appeal after appeal is rejected, and the current news does not look very promising for Pollard.
Let us contrast this Alexander the Greatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1062344005585635342003-08-31T10:33:00.000-05:002003-08-31T10:34:46.670-05:00Hillel Aguilera
A recent article by the JTA gives me an opportunity to shoot off about Hillel...
" the extent to which Hillel used pop-culture cool to court students at Hillel´s Charles Schusterman International Leader´s Assembly hints at the key challenge for Jewish activists on college campuses: attracting students." Bear in mind that this was the convention for Hillel leaders, the already Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1062305832524694672003-08-30T23:57:00.000-05:002003-08-30T23:58:29.160-05:00If you're really drunk or bored, and can't get enough Kant, check out the Kant Song...Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1062084499762615612003-08-28T10:28:00.000-05:002003-08-28T10:33:15.536-05:00Beware: the RIAA is Coming...
A legal battle between the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and a computer user known only as "nycfashiongirl" is occurring now in DC. (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Downloading-Music.html) The user is accused of sharing over 1000 pirated music files (I'm sure many of us know people with far more). There are much more serious issuesPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07143365328602060867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1061944165236360752003-08-26T19:29:00.000-05:002003-08-26T19:29:25.286-05:00You know youre an intellectual snob when...
Whereas I used to be mildly appreciative of underlines and highlights in used books, they now only testify to the dearth of understanding in today's world...Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1061941771825514042003-08-26T18:49:00.000-05:002003-08-26T18:51:17.013-05:00Back to School
Just thought I'd share a quick link - a CNN special profile of all sorts of returning students including college students (http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/back.to.school/college/index.html).
One of the highlights is the increasing gap between female undergrads (57%) and male undergrads (43%). There is also a chart listing the most popular majors...which is interesting to think Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07143365328602060867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1061869315605354772003-08-25T22:41:00.000-05:002003-08-25T22:42:58.116-05:00"Roy Moore: Still the Ten Commandments Judge"
There was an article in the Saturday's NY Times about Roy Moore, you know, of Roy's Rock fame. The Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice famous for refusing to take a 5,280 pound monument out of the state Supreme Court building was an unknown lawyer 11 years ago when he was elected to a minor judgeship in northeastern Alabama. He hung up a plaque Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790322057041153968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1061832398081025772003-08-25T12:26:00.000-05:002003-08-25T12:29:40.126-05:00Guilty Pleasures
An article in the National Post explores the impoverishment of the modern day guilty pleasure. What we call guilty pleasures, be it exotic desserts or Britney Spears, we don't really feel guilty about, at least not in the same way gamblers feel their guilt.
The interesting part of the article isn't the writer's moral admonishment--"But surely that little voice making us feel Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1061707975375767072003-08-24T01:52:00.000-05:002003-08-24T01:53:19.176-05:00American Comic Wins Perrier Comedy Award
Against the odds, Greek-American comedian Demetri Martin last night won the Perrier Award , Britain's "most prestigious award for comedy." Among those entered, he won over another American, a favored Australian and a Brit.
Martin, a Yale law dropout, had a succesful Broadway run of his show If I and currently has a space on the Comedy Central website Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790322057041153968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1061486739321908792003-08-21T12:25:00.000-05:002003-08-22T02:19:02.490-05:00The "Unholy" Land
Eitan Gorlin's movie The Holy Land has been making its rounds in the independent film circuit as one of the most provocative looks at Jews in Israel in the past 30 years. The film is an attempt at an avant garde portrayal of a young yeshiva student from Bnai Brak who falls in love with a Russian prostitute. While I thought it was going to be some Jewish version of "Pretty WomanTiger Woodznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1061399131123538512003-08-20T12:05:00.000-05:002003-08-20T12:05:31.103-05:00Sorry for the slow posting week...I'm getting ready to move up to school and have a lot to take care of...Things will pick up soon...Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1061230415986684622003-08-18T13:13:00.000-05:002003-08-18T13:13:35.996-05:00There is a better alternative to the current power grid
One other interesting point made by K. T. Jackson about the power outage was that "Our system of distributing electricity is antiquated." This contradicts what Slate's Chris Suellentrop argued in Chatterbox yesterday. He stated that the power grids in third world countries do not cover large areas. They experience more frequent blackouts Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790322057041153968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1061229863824580622003-08-18T13:04:00.000-05:002003-08-18T14:09:55.220-05:00New Yorkers' On Their Best Blackout Behavior
Columbia Professor Kenneth T. Jackson contributes an excellent opinion piece about the blackout in today's WSJ. It is entitled "Heart of Darkness", which really couldn't be further from the truth. It is about New York City's exemplary behavior during the recent blackout, in contrast with the looting and stealing of the blackout of '77. He gives a Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790322057041153968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1061225233311907332003-08-18T11:47:00.000-05:002003-08-18T12:06:46.943-05:00THE Cool Guy
I heard on the radio this morning that our electricity rates would be rising to cover the cost of upgrading and replacing the electric infrastructure. While most people interviewed reacted in a manner ranging from upset to enraged, one man said something along the lines of: Nothing in life is free, I'm happy to pay my taxes. It's worth it.
In an age when everyone hates the Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07143365328602060867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1061223682717291702003-08-18T11:21:00.000-05:002003-08-18T11:21:22.786-05:00Jewsweek's Yada Blog...
...has a funny line regarding Dr. Laura's conversion"
The doctor is out: The Protocols blog notes that Dr. Laura is no longer an observant Jew, hanging up her candlesticks after having converted nearly a decade ago. And why? Says the good doctor, ''I felt that I was putting out a tremendous amount toward that mission, that end, and not feeling return, not feeling Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790322057041153968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1061223442889745802003-08-18T11:17:00.000-05:002003-08-18T12:11:16.610-05:00Rolling Stones on the Web and Rhapsody Makes Deal with Best Buy
The Stones are releasing all their music for consumption on the web through RealNetworks' Rhapsody service this week. It will be out through iTunes and other services August 31. The Rhapsody service is quality. Unlike iTunes, where you pay per song, Rhapsody is a subsciption service, you pay a monthly fee and can download as many Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790322057041153968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1061222910746248182003-08-18T11:08:00.000-05:002003-08-18T11:11:33.913-05:00Israeli and Stylish?
The Jewish Week has a piece on the immense popularity of Israeli hairstylists on the Upper East Side. Could it be possible?? Could Israelis be the vanguard of style?
"And Israel, so close to Europe, is, well, on the cutting edge. 'If it’s in fashion elsewhere, it’s in fashion in Israel,' says Shriqui, who goes back every summer. " I find this very hard to believe. It is aYedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1061220554383617762003-08-18T10:29:00.000-05:002003-08-18T14:11:46.020-05:00Hillary the Hypocrite
Courtesy of Ruven, who's busily preparing for a trip to Israel, here's a story bashing Hillary for hypocrisy in the face of the blackout:
"Electrical outlets had barely cooled Thursday night when New York Sen. Hillary Clinton took to the airwaves to blame the Bush administration for causing the nation's worst blackout ever.
Given her outraged tones, however, one would Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1061219346799959412003-08-18T10:09:00.000-05:002003-08-18T14:11:09.183-05:00Gr...uesome Adventure
They always warned us about stories like this in sleep-away camp but I never believed it. What an awful way to go:
"An amusement park operator was killed Saturday when his hair got caught on a roller coaster car, pulling him up as high as 40 feet before he fell, back-first, onto a fence. "
Could Cropsy be true also?
Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060988216926159572003-08-15T17:56:00.000-05:002003-08-17T01:56:46.080-05:00Elephants and the University: holding on by the skin of their tusks
The unspoken backdrop of Brooks' piece (see my previous post for a distillation) is the national debate over diversity in universities. It's quite obvious that when he writes that "it is not useful to try to hammer diversity into every neighborhood and institution in the United States," he has universities in mind, or at least Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060963524641215682003-08-15T11:05:00.000-05:002003-08-15T11:09:44.986-05:00Kudos to Aarons Bible website
This is almost too unbelievable to be true, but check for yourself. I made a mistake typing in the ivyJews website - I wrote "ivyjews.blogpsot.com". Did a simple error message pop up? Nope. Rather, I was taken to this Christian Gosepl Site - which even has a special section on Jews, among 100 other things.
As a Jew, I still respect the Chrsitian faith, although I Alexander the Greatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060958964317372372003-08-15T09:49:00.000-05:002003-08-15T11:48:17.613-05:00Brooks on Diversity
David Brooks' latest piece in the Atlantic Monthly, on the state of diversity in America, is a political essay dressed in sociological garb (usually Brooks does a better job in distinguishing between his two types of essays; his book on the new upper class, Bobos in Paradise, is a must-read for cons and libs alike).
Notwithstanding all our talk on the virtues of diversity,Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060956995933886362003-08-15T09:16:00.000-05:002003-08-15T09:20:57.270-05:00Marey Carey Cook will Work (it) for the Citizens
I surfed and finally found her campaign website.
To tell you the truth, I haven't had a chance to read what's on the site, since I'm at work, and the picture of the candidate on the site isn't exactly "tznius" (decent and modest). This isn't your mainstraim photo of a politician kissing babies. But close - the picture does conjure up images of Alexander the Greatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060926592619493352003-08-15T00:49:00.000-05:002003-08-15T02:07:14.973-05:00Who Caused the Blackout? (or, a prelude to a whole lot of Canada jokes)
Though the vulnerability of the nation's electricity grids has long been noted,
"The cause of yesterday's failure, which spanned from New York and eastern Canada as far as Cleveland and Detroit, was still under investigation. Authorities think the problem resulted from an overload..." of visitors at ivyJews, a distinctiveYedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060915335891998942003-08-14T21:42:00.000-05:002003-08-14T21:46:43.456-05:00Columbia Jewish Community in the News
Following Gil Perl's controversial pamphlet condemning the lifestyles led by Modern Orthodox Jews on secular college campuses, The Jewish Week published an article last week with reports about the opinions of two leaders of Jewish Life at Columbia, Tamar Kaplan-Marans, head of Halakha and Modernity, and Becca Israel, head of Yavneh, the 480-student Orthodox Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790322057041153968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060893859923467562003-08-14T15:44:00.000-05:002003-08-14T15:51:10.240-05:00California Dreamers
Here are some of the choiciest of the 135 candidates in the Cali election:
Warren Farrell, fathers' issues author, San Diego
This is from his website: "Most campuses are turning women's studies into gender studies, but in reality, "gender" still excludes men. If you are with a college or university, the best way to finance me speaking is via the Student Activities Alexander the Greatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060883084725072042003-08-14T12:44:00.000-05:002003-08-14T12:49:17.270-05:00Random question about blind people
(Sorry to interrupt Nannypalooza.)
I understand brail books. But in many public places or hotels or offices, there is brail on door and wall signs (eg, for directions or "men" and women" on the bathroom).
How do the blind people know to walk over to the wall or door and touch that little area where there is brail? And if you tell me that someone guides them, Alexander the Greatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060878177037065442003-08-14T11:22:00.000-05:002003-08-14T22:31:38.863-05:00Not to kick Larisa while she's down, but...
As a formerly subcontracted child, I have to take issue with parts of Larisa’s post and her subsequent defense.
I could tell you how much I learned from what seemed like, at times, a revolving door of baby-sitters/housekeepers, but that would be untrue and, more importantly, would miss the entire point of what Ehrenreich refers to as the “servant Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08608799815056034775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060852681296624212003-08-14T04:18:00.000-05:002003-08-14T07:41:53.770-05:00Mel Gibson the Objective Historian (with the next logical step that Jews really did commit horrible acts)
I earlier tonight made reference to a fact that, as we all know, Jews run Hollywood.
Give me an opportunity here for a second to indulge myself with one of my all-time favorite Weekend Update jokes, a joke from the blessed era of Norm McDonald. His timing was perfect and he perceived a Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790322057041153968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060848978146576572003-08-14T03:16:00.000-05:002003-08-14T03:20:55.940-05:00Intelletual Love
Bangitout.com's recent Top Ten on religious intellectuals, has sparked a renewed interest in pondering the intellectual tradition of our heritage, despite Larisa's refusal to contemplate intellectual values while choosing nail polish; no doubt you can find some book out there, assuming that it allows women the luxury of nail polish, that outlines the proper method of choosing Tiger Woodznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060846635979290432003-08-14T02:37:00.000-05:002003-08-14T02:41:54.050-05:00The Jews and Arnold: More than a money game?
All the incites on Arnold's precarious relationships with the Jews notwithstanding, the heavy hitters here in LaLa land still support the Terminator. Although I can bring no proof with web links for this discussion, I was told by the director at of the Simon Weistental Center yesterday that Arnold approached him first more than ten years ago to Tiger Woodznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060843247687386802003-08-14T01:40:00.000-05:002003-08-14T01:51:21.520-05:00Schwarzenegger and the Holocaust
Apparently, Jews aren't going to turn out for Schwarzenegger at the polls, as the JTA reports today. As you already know from the Chatterbox piece on the Nazi issue, Schwarzenegger has never apologized for supporting Kurt Waldheim in Austrian elections years ago, even after it came out that Waldheim had been a Nazi during World War II. Chatterbox claimed that Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790322057041153968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060816257797881562003-08-13T18:10:00.001-05:002003-08-13T18:30:14.876-05:00For an unmarried Jewish woman, there's no day to start blogging like Tu B'Av.
Or at least that's the way it used to be.
While modernity has brought us such advances as refrigerators (ice cream wouldn't exist without it) and the internet (Paul might not have friends without it), it would be a lie to say that the world is a wholly better place than it was in the time of our forefathers.
ThereSarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08608799815056034775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060793285302679882003-08-13T11:48:00.000-05:002003-08-13T11:52:51.470-05:00Happy Tu B'av
When
Today, my friends, is a little known (or celebrated) Jewish holiday called Tu B'av, "the 15th of the month of Av," not to be confused with Tisha B'av, the 9th of Av. Other than yet another excuse to take off work, this holiday celebrates--and no this isnt a joke--the expansion of the marriage pool for Jewish women.
What
The Mishna reports that in days of old Tu B'av was one Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060790235643426042003-08-13T10:57:00.000-05:002003-08-13T11:02:02.283-05:00Alleged 9-11 terrorist hires Jewish lawyer
This is absurd. If the headline doesn't disturb you enough, read the rest of the article
There is a extremely dramatic moment in the article, when the Jew and the Jew-hater looked into each other's eyes and all was forgiven. It must be have been love at first sight:
Michael Rosenthal, a criminal defense lawyer based in the southern city of Karlsruhe, Alexander the Greatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060758389730426692003-08-13T02:06:00.000-05:002003-08-13T02:06:29.750-05:00Man Arrested in Attempted Sale of Missile to Undercover FBI Agent
Wow! What a crazy story. A Briton of Indian heritage was arrested today after he was tricked into selling a missile to an undercover FBI agent. The FBI agent specified only that the missile be able to bring down a commercial airplane. He was under cover as a fanatical Muslim. The deal had been building up for months. The missile Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790322057041153968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060748617382855792003-08-12T23:23:00.000-05:002003-08-12T23:35:12.383-05:00Still Single?
As an over-the-hill single male, I often have nothing better to do than wait for the lonely hours to pass while seated in front of my computer. As I desperately struggle to keep my frequent tears from damaging the keyboard I ask myself, “why oh why is my life like this?”
Why am I still single? I can’t figure it out. I’m nearly a college graduate, and a blogger! Shouldn’t Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07143365328602060867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060734397455095732003-08-12T19:26:00.000-05:002003-08-12T21:51:31.570-05:00So-Called Hudna Ends on Intifada's Anniversary
From CNN: "'Unfortunately this whole road map ... is only a fig leaf behind which the terrorist organizations are hiding and are rearming themselves and preparing themselves for exactly the type of incident we saw today,' said Jonathan Peled, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman."
Has anyone realized that the [now-so-called] Hudna officially ends Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060733212300823672003-08-12T19:06:00.000-05:002003-08-12T19:16:13.186-05:00Cease the Ceasefire Talk
For those who haven't heard, Hamas and Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings in Israel. Both bombings were in violation of a ceasefire signed 6 weeks ago. According to CNN, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, in a speech Tuesday in Maine, said, "I've already seen reports on television that say, 'Well, the road map is now finished,' or,Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060698744845899072003-08-12T09:32:00.000-05:002003-08-12T09:32:24.870-05:00The Youngsters of Zion
Oh Larisa, you just reminded me! I missed the Elders meeting again this year! Why don't I ever get the invitation?! And this is the second time - the Mossad has yet to give me an adequate explanation for why they didn't call me on Septemeber 10th!
Not to mention what happened to my great great great grandparents, who were left in the dark when the Jews started the French Alexander the Greatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060649343820768432003-08-11T19:49:00.000-05:002003-08-12T11:55:25.220-05:00Confessions of a Frum Intellectual (tonight, right after red shoe diaries)
Courtesy of Bangitout.com, Top Ten Signs You're a Frum [Religious] Intellectual by David Rosen and Daniel Kasell. Now, Rosen and Kassell are two Cornellians I know fairly well, and Rosen himself admitted that he had me in mind when composing this piece (since this is one of his best, it's quite a compliment), so I Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060641853161373892003-08-11T17:44:00.000-05:002003-08-11T21:31:51.143-05:00Finally, Jewish Sex
We’ve been a bit short on the sexual issues promised in our title. I hope to make at least a minor contribution towards filling that gap…
I recently came across a booklet published in 1996 from the (Jewish) Conservative movement’s Commission on Human Sexuality called, “A Rabbinic Letter on Intimate Relations.” The prologue describes its purpose as:
"…an effort on the Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07143365328602060867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060622242319118482003-08-11T12:17:00.000-05:002003-08-11T18:39:21.570-05:00What do Jason Biggs and Woody Allen have in common?
American Pie star Jason Biggs has teamed up with Woody Allen (and Christina Ricci) in Anything Else, coming to theaters September 19th.
Plot Outline: "A contemporary romantic comedy set in New York city about the relationship between an older guy and his younger protege. The older guy guides the younger through a messy and hilarious love Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060612415734454612003-08-11T09:33:00.000-05:002003-08-11T09:33:35.893-05:00The Clinton Strategy
About two weeks ago, Bill Clinton was on Larry King Live fielding questions about the war on Iraq and the intelligence the current administration used to justify it. Surprisingly, Clinton was very supportive of the war and even apologetic about the one sentence of British misinformation used in the State of the Union speech.
Something smells fishy. Bill must be shrewdly Alexander the Greatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060550787106704992003-08-10T16:26:00.000-05:002003-08-10T16:26:27.070-05:00More on Schwarzenegger and Waldheim
Timothy Noah "swings for the fences" as one reader outs it, in yesterday's Chatterbox. In the Fray below it has some great responses to his claim that "If Schwarzenegger doesn't renounce Waldheim in a highly public way, he can forget about ever becoming governor of California." He overstates the case obviously, but the moral question lingers: is it enough to Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790322057041153968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060390615581523372003-08-08T19:56:00.000-05:002003-08-08T19:56:55.370-05:00Pseudo-Intellectuals of the IvyJew Blogg
Albeit fitting only one criteria of the blogg's mission statement, contemplating the teleological values of 20th Century Jewish philosophy was actually the object of today's excursion in the jungles of Los Angeles. The often cold-hearted chronic apathy of the Los Angeleno can leave even locals in an existentialist frant. And while the eve of our people's Tiger Woodznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060389225815160642003-08-08T19:33:00.000-05:002003-08-08T19:34:16.630-05:00The Gubernator
Arnold certainly deserves better.
Former President Ronald Reagan did his share of Hollywood cameos, years before his entrance into the political theather. Granted he was never a Terminator or the Last Action hero; nonetheless, Reagan, a former California governor, was known to his audience as "The Gipper" for his role in Knute Rockne, All American - one of the silver screens mostTiger Woodznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060378044146911022003-08-08T16:27:00.000-05:002003-08-08T16:32:52.010-05:00More on Arnold
If GWB can take a 35 day-long vacation, maybe the good state of California can give Arnold some time off to go make T4. I certainly hope so.Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790322057041153968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060368394535275022003-08-08T13:46:00.000-05:002003-08-08T13:47:19.406-05:00 Arnold - tackle the issues!
Just from reading some of Schwarzenegger's political comments makes you wonder about his actual political agenda. His answers to most interview questions concentrate on why California should hold a recall and get rid of Davis. But most Californians already agree to that, even the Democrats. So far, Dems have criticized his lack of experience, citing that fact that Alexander the Greatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060301791830671142003-08-07T19:16:00.000-05:002003-08-07T19:16:31.900-05:00If the Metal Costume Fits, Then you Must...elect him governor
More Ahhhhnuld: Interesting tidbit in a great review of T3 in the New Yorker by Anthony Lane in July 14th issue.
"By now, the performer is so seamlessly joined to the part that we find it hard to conceive of another arrangement, yet the fact remains that at one point, when James Cameron was devising the original picture, of 1984, the Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-106029423680407772003-08-07T17:10:00.000-05:002003-08-07T17:55:19.980-05:00My God...Larisa's soooo Eurocentric...
Quick follow-up on Larisa's Blair post (permalinks are on the way): Larisa's all too sure that Deity worship is only for the good...Let's say, though, that Blair's true allegiance is to the Zoroastrians, or better yet, to the Yezidis...who then would Blair be worshipping?
In the Words of a well-known Jewish Studies professor of mine:
"[The Yezidis] claim Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060290281233940202003-08-07T16:04:00.000-05:002003-08-07T16:04:41.180-05:00The Chicago Manual
The new edition of The Chicago Manual of Style is out. It is the fifteenth edition and incorporates the most changes since the 12th edition, which came out in the 60s. The New York Times reports today about one of the major conflicts, whether to kill the "en-dash", that middle length dash, slightly longer than the hyphen but shorter than the "em-dash", which is used to separateDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790322057041153968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060287457901987302003-08-07T15:17:00.000-05:002003-08-07T15:40:49.710-05:00Your Votes, Give Them to Me
So Ahnold is running for Governor of the State of California. Well, he certainly has name recognition. He declared his candidacy on The Tonight Show with a little speech. All I know is that I'll enjoy as many jokes as the media throws at me about Schwarzenegger being a "Running Man". Hehe, that's good stuff.
Here are a couple Schwarzenegger quotes from last night:
Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790322057041153968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060272670435314562003-08-07T11:11:00.000-05:002003-08-07T11:15:58.970-05:00Interesting article on the one salty discharge that's encouraged on Tisha B'av
the link takes you to the financial times:
E-"What's the matter?"
J- "It's Patty."
E -"Jerry, you break up with a girl every week."
J - "What is this salty discharge?"
E -"Oh my God, you're crying."
J -"This is horrible. I care." Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060228390276266292003-08-06T22:53:00.000-05:002003-08-06T23:18:57.996-05:00Does the Internet Know More than we Think?
I apologize, but I can't resist. I'm very interested in converts and don't mock them in the least. But I stumbled across a convert's website and here's a sentence from his story: "I searched for a very long time before I found Hakadosh Barukh Hu [The Holy One Blessed be He]." Try clicking the link and see what happens...and no i didnt tamper with it.
Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060215465237986122003-08-06T19:17:00.000-05:002003-08-11T00:07:53.883-05:00Israel in the News
Ha'aretz first reported yesterday that the United States was considering reneging on its loan guarantees to Israel. Israel's economy depends on these guarantees, as Ed Finn explains today on Slate. The issue hinges on whether Israel builds a Berlin Wall-style fence through the West Bank or other disputed territories. Israel will build a wall separating itself from Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790322057041153968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060203671904884212003-08-06T16:01:00.000-05:002003-08-06T21:44:34.753-05:00Rationalizing the Ridiculous
The mere mention of uber scholar Gershom Scholem in my-way-too-long-and-serious-post (permalinks would be helpful, anyone know how?) has inspired me to tell over one of my favorite quotes. When Scholem, pioneer scholar of Jewish mysticism, gave a guest lecture at JTS, he was introduced by Talmudic uber scholar Saul Lieberman, scion of dry lithuanian rationalism.
In Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060199760830286512003-08-06T14:56:00.000-05:002003-08-06T14:56:00.860-05:00IVY College Posters
I was passing through a non-ivy college (I'm not going for arrogance, just putting the story in the context of the blog) and I came across a poster with a picture of three skulls which says in large print, "Boycott Coke! Don't Finance Death!" Below this, in smaller print, it says, "Coca Cola employs paramilitary death squads to murder union leaders and organizers in ColumbiaPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07143365328602060867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060190006358719262003-08-06T12:13:00.000-05:002003-08-06T12:17:57.530-05:00When Harry Met Helen
From LAtimes, courtesy of ALdaily: Helen Chaplin has told her doctors that if she must die—and apparently there's no way around it—she wants them to keep her alive long enough to finish "Remembrance of Things Past," all 2,265 pages of it.
Someone should suggest to her Billy Crystal's trick: "When I buy a new book, I read the last page first. That way, in case I die before IYedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060188265156289042003-08-06T11:44:00.000-05:002003-08-06T11:44:25.033-05:00Comment City
New comments section just added to the site...now all we need are permalinks...any suggestions?Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060181915580395162003-08-06T09:58:00.000-05:002003-08-06T11:29:02.283-05:00Too Fat to Handle
Came across this link today: The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. It seems that no matter what cause you support there is already an organization to back you up - what a great country!
Working against discrimination is nice...but they don't stop there. The NAAFA works to "Advocate and sponsor responsible research about the various aspects of being fat [and] Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07143365328602060867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060148334178418062003-08-06T00:38:00.000-05:002003-08-06T02:48:38.590-05:00Are Judaism and Nationalism Compatible? Is Shalhevet Highat root fanatical because it unequivocally supports Israel? PART I
Speaking of post-modern jewish thought, there's an interesting article from the Shalem Center's journal Azure criticizing eminent literary critic George Steiner's critique of Zionism. The piece is worth reading in its entirety, but since its long I'll do my best to summarizeYedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060147326095648592003-08-06T00:22:00.000-05:002003-08-06T00:34:34.666-05:00More Allegations
According to Yedidiah's information posted earlier today, I am a Talmudic male or at least I see no "inherent virtue in sports." So, it is with some embarrassment that I admit a story like this piqued my interest, though fortunately not for any sports reason.
Sexual misconduct allegations haunt Mets prospect
Basically, the Mets have stopped negotiations with a first-round Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07143365328602060867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060113554427807082003-08-05T14:59:00.000-05:002003-08-05T16:09:57.016-05:00For the record
I, David, recorded a 17 on the Metrosexual quiz. That puts me in the "normal" range, I believe. I bet Yedidiah scores higher.
In other news about metrosexuality, there is a new parody of the show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy called Butch Eye for the Queer Guy. In it, five real men demetrosexualize a Beverly Hills hairstylist. Read all about it at On the Fritz.
Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790322057041153968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060104730598802282003-08-05T12:32:00.000-05:002003-08-05T12:40:28.710-05:00Are You a Metrosexual
Here's a quiz, just released, which lets you know if you're a flaming heterosexual. My guess is that of the bloggers David tops the list, with Paul coming in a close second...(fine, me and david are probly tied...)
The notion of an effeminate male shouldnt be totally foreign to jews. Berkeley Talmud scholar, Daniel Boyarin, wrote a book a number of years back called: Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060094926790301342003-08-05T09:48:00.000-05:002003-08-05T13:10:24.876-05:00Lessons from eBay
Someone sent me the link to this eBay item. Though the auction is over, we can still learn much from this occult item.
1) People will sell anything on eBay.
2) More importantly, people will buy anything on eBay.
3) Despite a noble attempt at a good ol' fashion ghost story, the author makes at least two fatal flaws -
a) Lack of attention to detail. Why Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07143365328602060867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060062112687527122003-08-05T00:41:00.000-05:002003-08-05T13:09:14.260-05:00Nerds in Need of Love
A friend approached me recently to help spruce up his JDate profile. I reacted with laughter, but of course pretended to be supportive once I ascertained he was serious. Then it hit me - what happened? Am I oblivious to such large changes in social norms just like I’d be oblivious if a car in which I was riding made a 180 degree turn while I was blindfolded, heavily Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07143365328602060867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060032691413868822003-08-04T16:31:00.000-05:002003-08-05T12:54:58.500-05:00German Penis Crisis and the Jews
While we're talking about penises, check out this entry from blogger Waldheim on the German penis crisis:
German penises. Ananova reports that Germany is requesting that the EU change its condom standards after finding that German penises are smaller than the EU thinks they should be. "On average they were 14.48 cms long and 3.95 cms wide. That makes them much Yedidiahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838788365004175029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1060026862904492722003-08-04T14:54:00.000-05:002003-08-04T14:55:37.336-05:00Steven Landsburg of Slate gives a few possible explanations for the frequency of gays smoking:
1) That gays are frequently childless and childless people are more likely to smoke, for a number of reasons, than those who have children.
2) Gays deal with one social stigma, so they don't have a problem dealing with another (In Landsburg's words, they might say: "Now that my parents have learned Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06790322057041153968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5635604.post-1059978432777829582003-08-04T01:27:00.000-05:002003-08-05T12:57:28.006-05:00Nicotini--all the cool kids are doing it and you should be too
"Some say that when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Well, I say when life gives you a smoking ban, have a nicotini," says Larry Wald, creator of Nicotini, a cocktail made by soaking tobacco leaves in vodka overnight.
Though most social smokers arent in it for the nicotine fix, the guy gets props for a clever idea.
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