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Monthly Archives: May 2015
World Ends: Woman and Minorities Hardest Hit (Pt. 21,719)
Comedian Mort Saul is attributed with the classic line that, if the NYT were to report on a nuclear apocalypse, their headline would be: “World Ends: Woman and Minorities Hardest Hit.” Enter the NYT with a piece actually titled “Public-Sector … Continue reading
Brave New World: NYC Elite Prep School Edition
The most hilarious paragraph from a piece on an elite NYC progressive school’s attempt at the great social engineering elimination of racism: That December, the head of the school, Damian Fernandez, who in a meeting with me identified himself as … Continue reading
Posted in Political Correctness, Race
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The Denial of Death
I’ve long believed fear of death is the driving force behind almost everything we do, particularly Culture-writ-large. And when it comes to culture, the magnitude of that driving force is proportionally related to how sublimated that fear of death is. … Continue reading
Posted in Existentialism, Psychology
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Ethiopian Jews in Israel
So, when it comes to closeted ethnocentrism (and not-so-closeted ethnocentrism), Israel sounds an awful lot like the million Fergusons that comprise the Evil, White, Racist U.S.A.: The story of the immigration and absorption of Ethiopian Jews in Israel epitomises the … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Middle East
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Ex Machina (2015)
Ex Machina (2015), which currently has a 92% on RT, is written and directed by Alex Garland, who is something of a Renaissance Man when it comes to the arts. In 1996, he published his first novel The Beach which … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Philosophy of Mind
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Haim Saban: Another Jewish Sugar Daddy
I’m genuinely surprised to see a piece like this in National Review (“Why Is an Israeli-American Billionaire Pouring Millions into the Clinton Foundation?“): Weeks after Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, the State Department objected to a proposed consultancy arrangement … Continue reading
Posted in Democrat Party, Jewish, Politics
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Jewish Identity & International Legal Thought
The Law of Strangers: Critical Perspectives on Jewish Lawyering and International Legal Thought is a forthcoming collection of essays edited by James Loeffler and Moria Paz that will be published by Cambridge University Press. The book’s overview: We think of … Continue reading
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The Kid From Brooklyn
In what seems like a decade ago, long before everyone and their sister had a well-followed podcast, I remember rolling in laughter at the podcast snippets of Mike Caracciolo (aka ‘The Kid From Brooklyn’ aka ‘The Big Man’) who was … Continue reading
Posted in Humor
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Oskar Gröning
Who is Oskar Gröning? From Wikipedia: Oskar Gröning (born 10 June 1921) is a German former SS-Unterscharführer who was stationed at Auschwitz concentration camp. His responsibilities included counting and sorting the money taken from prisoners, and was in charge of … Continue reading
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Inside Bob Seger’s “Night Moves”
The WSJ has a cool backstory on Bob Seger’s song “Night Moves”, with extended quotes from Seger and others involved in the song’s performance and production: Mr. Seger: Kris Kristofferson’s “Me and Bobby McGee” knocked me out. It’s a narration, … Continue reading
Posted in Music
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