I had been thinking to write a post about Martin Indyk and his anti-Israel op-ed that was close to mind-blowing. Alas, I never got around to it and I’m happy I didn’t because Leibler has...
Richard Silverstein Continues to Spew Bullshit
Such Decrepitude! I know most of you don’t care about Richard Silverstein’s most recent screed against me, but… but… he called me mean!! And… and… he said I was...
White House’s Hubris Not Limited To Israel – Just Ask The Whales
Research? Before a moratorium on commercial whaling was adopted 25 years ago, on average an estimated 38,000 whales were being killed each year. Since the moratorium, that number has dropped to about...
Russian Shabbaton in New York
Really? Since when do we cover little shabbatons? I don’t know. Maybe I’m a mushball? Or maybe I remember all those times I stood outside the Russian consulate on Rue de la Montaigne in...
Boobquake Causes Actual Earthquake??
Do fries go with that shake? It started last week when Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazim Sadeghi stated that “Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their...
Speaking of the bastards trying to grind people down
UCSD Next in the sights of the BDSD People After the Boycott and Divestment forces failed at Berkeley last week, where the student body president, Will Smelko, vetoed an initial resolution demanding...
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum: Do not let the bastards grind you down, Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is a brilliant writer. Reading her work, there were countless times when I would stop just to reread a passage or two because the writing was so stunningly beautiful. My favorite work...
Good editorial about the bigger picture regarding the South Park-Mohammed episode
From the NY Times: But there’s still a sense in which the “South Park†case is particularly illuminating. Not because it tells us anything new about the lines that writers and entertainers...
Farewell to TEDxTelAviv
Well, that’s it. The conference is over, and I’ve finished with the updates. So, here is the last post about it. Over all, it was really quite fascinating. There were lectures about...
TEDxTelAviv – Update 4
Here’s the fourth and final update to the TEDxTelAviv conference. Martin Rappaport – “Fair Trade: An End to Exploitation” Martin Rapaport was a diamond guy, until he quit to...