ט״ו באלול ה׳תש״ע (Wednesday 25 August 2010)

David Statue Controversy

ט״ו באלול ה׳תש״ע (Wednesday 25 August 2010)

Uh oh. According to Jpost, there’s now a debate over the ownership of David. I don’t know how this is going to affect my, my blog, my self-image and my avatar. I’ve been happy as David for nearly a year, but what if I can’t be any longer? What should I be if I can’t [...]

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Israel & Turkey

י״ד באלול ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 24 August 2010)

Whenever I think about Israel’s relationship with Turkey, I think of Jabotinsky‘s book Taryag Millim: An Introduction to Spoken Hebrew (In Latin Characters). Though he was careful to say that he wasn’t using the book to advocate for a Latinized letter system for Hebrew like Mustafa Kemal did with Turkish, the book reflects an interesting [...]

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Boys & Girls & Maturity

י״ג באלול ה׳תש״ע (Monday 23 August 2010)

When I was a “pre-teen,” I was informed multiple times by adults in my vicinity that girls matured faster than boys (now “pre-teens” don’t even exist any more, having been replaced by “tweens”). Some evidence around me seemed to support this contention. By all accounts, the girls around me matured physically a year or two [...]

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Skinny Girls Are Not Hot

י״ב באלול ה׳תש״ע (Sunday 22 August 2010)

I don’t like skinny girls. I don’t exactly mind them, and I have met girls who are skinny and hot, but by and large, hotness and skinniness are mutually exclusive. I probably don’t need to say that hotness and fatness very definitely have nothing to do with one another, but I like a girl with [...]

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Obama Is Not a Muslim or a Christian

י״א באלול ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 21 August 2010)

Half Sigma has written a couple posts in the past few days proclaiming that President Obama is not only not a Muslim, but that he’s not a Christian either: Obama: Muslim, atheist, or Christian? Is Obama a Muslim? I know he doesn’t claim that all his ideas are original, but I was saying that Obama [...]

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Ramadan & Islam in America

י׳ באלול ה׳תש״ע (Friday 20 August 2010)

I won’t be the first to observe that US President Obama’s Ramadan statement is so full of factual errors that it hardly contains even the whiff of truth: On behalf of the American people, Michelle and I want to extend our best wishes to Muslims in America and around the world. Ramadan Kareem. Nothing untrue [...]

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