Let’s Get Serious For A Second
What’s wrong with being an equal opportunity offender within the confines of comedy? If you asked me before I saw Tropic Thunder last night I might have answered, “Not much.” Not the case…
Shabbat Shalom
The picture is from somebody’s beautiful biking trip in Eshtaol. This was a very interesting week in America and perhaps a little less interesting but quite a bit more fulfilling if you live…
Daily Show vs. Cable News
Matt Tobey from Comedy Central Insider writes I wasn’t alive to see Michelangelo paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. I wasn’t born yet when The Beatles toured. And I probably won’t ever…
Please can you link to my blog?
I get requests like that every day. Being linked to from established blogs is perceived to be a great way to get traffic to a new blog. I tend to dismiss most of…
Alarm bells should be ringing if you serve in the IDF or have a son who is serving
A long time ago, on this blog, I wrote about the amateurishness of Olmert and Halutz. This was before they proved they can’t run a war and an army. Halutz in particular seemed…
Emperor without clothes – an early election post
As our faithful readers know, some of us live in the US, some in Israel, some in other countries. We have roots in the US, Canada, Israel and Europe and some of us…
Just a Little Balance
From a European perspective, I can understand why some readers claim that coverage of current US politics has been somewhat unbalanced. I won’t endorse either Presidential candidate or the other as I believe…
Cum Grano Arenae
As I was flipping through the pages of Süddeutsche Zeitung. Wissen in the staff room the other day, I discovered something that apparently made me illicit sounds of awe (I do hope they…
Candidate to nowhere – Gov. Sarah Palin
She backed the Bridge to Nowhere during he run for Governor, and killed it when there was a public outcry. Then claims that she was against it all along. She claims she will…
Pastor Larry Kroon& the Jews
Larry Kroon—Sarah Palin’s Church Pastor— was hesitant in this interview, hesitant to throw his support behind Israel, and as many Christians wants Jews to buy into JC. Brother Nathanael Kapner: “Do you support…
BBC WORLD TV & New Video
BBC WORLD TV Y-Love and Diwon were recently on BBC World TV Live where Y-Love was asked about his Global Hip Hop style and then performed one of Diwon’s new tracks. Very bad…
In a world where movie trailers abound…
…the voice you were most likely to have heard was that of one Don Lafontaine, Hollywood’s premiere voice over guy. Don narrated over 5,000 trailers, 350,000 network promotions, and video game trailers in…
I am learning how to fight the Jews and kill Jewish children
11-year-old Muhammad, Gaza One of the benefits enjoyed by the Palestinians as a result of Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza, other than freeing up space for a “400 acre tourism, entertainment and movie production…
