America

Ranking Israeli Girls By Ethnicity

ג׳ בתמוז ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 15 June 2010)

Israeli Hi-Tech Guy posted this comment in my discussion of Pick-up Artistry: OK, the “Battle of the Bods” post on Roissy made me think of this. How would you rate Israeli girls from different backgrounds? You know, Ashkenazi vs Moroccan vs Yemeni, etc. I’ve got my own opinion – kind of interested in seeing your [...]

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I am not a Pick-Up Artist

כ״ו בסיון ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 8 June 2010)

This is in response to a question posted by Israeli Hi-Tech Guy in my new Open Thread: So, are you a sort of Israeli PUA? How viable is that lifestyle here? No, I do not consider myself a Pick-Up Artist for these reasons: First, in contrast to other parts of the world, picking up girls [...]

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A new high for journalism

י״ט בסיון ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 1 June 2010)

This is from Time Magazine and Reuters: The Blue-Red divide, by almost every measure, has gotten worse, and the ubiquity of electronic media spreads intense political and cultural disdain in the blink of an eye. The always-enlightening Google reveals that typing in “Obama worse president ever” yields 3.6 million results, versus 1.7 million for “Bush [...]

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More Stupid Boss Tricks

ח׳ באדר ה׳תש״ע (Monday 22 February 2010)

In January, I went on vacation for a couple weeks. I had only been with my current company for five and a half months, and two of those were as a part time employee, so I didn’t have enough vacation days accrued to take the whole vacation. The company let me go anyway, and I [...]

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America’s Racial Orthodoxy

כ״ח בטבת ה׳תש״ע (Thursday 14 January 2010)

America is a ridiculously weird place because Americans, as most of the world knows, are obsessed with race and yet, at the same time, it is absolutely forbidden for Americans to have any opinion about race, with the possible exception of one: There Is Too Much Racism. Progressives do not even have to enforce this [...]

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JFS and Racial Discrimination

ב׳ בטבת ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 19 December 2009)

As a university student in America, I once read an article posing the question: When did the modern era in Jewish history begin? The author’s answer was to point out that the answer depends on who answers the question. A Zionist might say, for example, that modern Jewish history began in 1789 with the rise [...]

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