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- Rolling Stone’s Bizarre Cheap Shot At Sarah Palin
March 28, 2011
I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...] - More Disgustingly Overt Reuters Bias
March 24, 2011
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...] - Bloomberg’s “Crash Tax”
March 24, 2011While reading last month’s issue of AAA’s Car & Travel magazine, I was surprised to discover that Bloomberg (with the FDNY behind him) is now trying to push a “crash tax” on anyone involved in a car accident, with such taxes ranging from $365 up to $490, depending on the severity of the crash. The [...]
- Obama’s Abu Ghraib
March 21, 2011The latest news out of Afghanistan is going to be really interesting to follow, if only to see how the media handles it. According to the Guardian and other (so far relatively few) sources, pictures have now made their way out of Afghanistan (courtesy of Germany’s Der Spiegel) showing brutal and psychopathic activities by U.S. [...]
- Sympathy For Israel? Time To Restore “Balance”!
March 16, 2011
In the [sparse] reporting of the Palestinians’ massacre of the Fogel family, several newspapers stand out with their distorted sense of “balance”, i.e., where they feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable describing the barbarity of the Palestinians without at least taking a swipe or two at the Israelis, no matter how patently irrelevant or disgustingly disrespectful it comes [...] 
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Culture
Fun With Google
I found this “armchair sociolinguistic analysis” of Google to be very interesting. Check it out! Tip of the ol’ fedora to my brother-in-law, Joey, for sending this my way. »
Pigs On The Subway
I just read a story on NBC New York about a fistfight on the NYC subway. Believe it or not, something like that is not actually common, although what prompted the fight is frustratingly common. Apparently, one woman started coughing without covering her mouth, prompting another woman, worried about the Swine Flu, to reprimand... »
A Facebook “Graveyard”?
The AP is reporting that Facebook has decided to keep dead people as members as a matter of policy. In fact, they have drawn up a list of modifications to the account to accommodate obvious issues with it being owned by a dead person, such as: —The site will remove any contact information. —The... »
Ralph Lauren Doesn’t Know What A Woman Is
Apparently Ralph Lauren has no idea what a woman is, at least not the typical woman. The women in his world apparently have heads bigger than their waists and apparently subsist on several grains of rice per day. So, naturally, when one of his models makes the mistake of letting herself look normal, she... »
Super-Matriarch Passes Away
ABC’s Simon McGregor-Wood reports on a woman who passed away last week at the age of 99, leaving behind approximately 1,400 descendants! Rachel Krishevsky was 19 when she married her cousin Yitzik from within the ultra orthodox Haredi community in Jerusalem. The young couple then set about following the Jewish commandment to be “fruitful... »
Outdoor Parks Smoking Ban In NYC?
The Daily News is reporting today that Mayor Bloomberg is taking his crusade against smoking to public parks now. His previous crusade against smoking in restaurants and bars has been in effect for a while now and although it was quite controversial when it first came out, smokers, libertarians, and other opponents allowed it... »
Obama Calls Kanye A “Jackass”
For once, I agree with Obama on something! Yesterday, I posted that Kanye West is an ass (an opinion with which I’m sure most of the world now agrees). Well, now Politico is reporting that Terry Moran, an ABC News employee, goofed today by tweeting an off-the-record comment by Obama, in which he called Kanye... »
The Greatest Shot In Tennis—Again
In what many are calling the greatest shot in tennis, Roger Federer hit the ball between his legs yesterday while running away from the net to chase an over-the-head shot from Novak Djokovic. This shot is unbelievable on its own, but the incredible irony is that the exact same shot was used against him four... »
Serena Williams Brings The Street To The U.S. Open
Over the weekend, tennis, a sport generally characterized by sportsmanlike conduct, sophistication, and discipline, got a taste of street thuggery with a tirade by Serena Williams, the likes of which haven’t been seen since the days of McEnroe. The difference between the tirades of Williams and McEnroe is that McEnroe’s “you can not be serious” is... »
Kanye West Shows Once Again Why He’s An Ass
During Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for Best Female Video during MTV’s Video Music Awards, Kanye West rushed up, grabbed the microphone from her, and announced that he thought Beyonce in fact had the best female video. You can see the video here. (Oh, and after his rude interruption, he flipped off the crowd and... »
Double Delight At Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival has produced not one, but TWO wonderful pieces of news! The first is that Director Samuel Maoz’s hard-hitting Israeli war movie Lebanon won the Golden Lion for best picture at the Venice film festival today, bringing a nice honor to the growing Israeli film industry. The other piece of news is... »
Second Rate Has-Been Danny Glover, Hanoi Jane, and Friends Protest Against Israel
The New York Post is reporting that in an online letter to event chiefs of the Toronto International Film Festival and in other public statements, traitor Hanoi Jane Fonda, self-hating Jew Naomi Klein, second-rate has-been bit actor Danny Glover, musical has-been David Byrne, vagina-obsessed Eve Ensler, and several others looking for that long-lost spotlight have protested... »
Senate Bill Would Give Obama Emergency Control of Internet
CNET is reporting on a Senate bill working its way through Congress that, if passed, would give the President emergency control of the internet, specifically private-sector networks. Additionally, the bill would create a federal certification program for “cybersecurity professionals,” along with a requirement that certain private-sector computer systems and networks be managed by people who... »
Israeli Wines Grow Globally
For as long as I can remember, kosher wine has always been synonymous with crappy wine. The oxymoronic phrase “good kosher wine” was laughable. Granted, there was the atypical bottle from Italy, France, or Australia that happened to be both good and kosher, but it was always the exception and never the rule. Wines... »
Take Back The Beep
Doesn’t it make you crazy when you call someone’s cell phone and get their voicemail, listen to their greeting in anticipation of the beep, only to have to listen to some inane instructions after their greeting, like, “once you are finished leaving a message you may hang up”? I, for one, absolutely hate this. And... »