Before going to college, libertarianism always struck me as an appealing ideology, if I were the sort to follow political ideologies. All that freedom! That classically liberal combo of fiscal...
Author - phoebe
Back from Canada
After a few wonderful days of communing with the ghost of Saul Bellow and the spirit of Rufus Wainwright, I am back in New York. Little-known fact: I am part Canadian. Although I’d barely ever...
I’m coming up so you’d better get the latkes started
Endless articles have been written about how Mel Gibson’s a tool. Which is fair, but I think we all get the point by now. The only interesting thing to come out of this latest one, from Ynet...
Birthright France
French-Jewish tourists may be heading en masse to Israel, but the road seems to go both ways. The European Jewish Press reports that France is offering kids from Northern Israel an escape from the...
Gentlemen prefer blondes
I think someone’s Jewdar might be just the slightest bit off. A Chabad guy on Flatbush Avenue just now ignored me completely and asked some blonde girl on a bike if she was Jewish (she was...
Haircut
I ran a beyond-3-miler in the park twice this week, which suggests that I’m not quite as out of shape as my blogging activity level would have you believe. The running also means, according to...