America

Public Education

א׳ בטבת ה׳תש״ע (Friday 18 December 2009)

Suppose private education were banned tomorrow. What would happen next? That question is not entirely academic. Progressives hate private education with all their might and they would absolutely move to crush it if they had the resources. Here in Israel, there is essentially no system of private education. At the primary and secondary level, there [...]

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Discrimination

כ״ד בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Friday 11 December 2009)

When I went to college years ago in America, I took a constitutional law class with a professor so fanatic and bloodthirsty that she made me feel uncomfortable as a male to attend the lectures (I passed it by cramming with the help of an arch-feminist who later became a lesbian – see, I don’t [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving

י״ב בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Sunday 29 November 2009)

I don’t know jack shit about farming, but I know a few things about logistics and a few more about economics, and I spent more than 20 years in America and fucking love Thanksgiving. What are you thankful for this year? If you’re an American, you should give thanks that your president hasn’t yet appointed [...]

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Birobidzhan: The Worst Idea Ever

י״א בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 28 November 2009)

How do you know you’ve got the worst idea ever? It’s unlikely that anyone will come up to you and say, “Your idea is so bad it makes me want to cry,” nor will your idea win a “worst idea ever” vote (masses of people tend actually to prefer bad ideas as a matter of [...]

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Jews & the US Army

ז׳ בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Tuesday 24 November 2009)

My grandfather served in the US army’s occupation of Japan after the Second World War – I was led to believe that he was too young to have been in the army during the war – but he was born in 1926 and I’ve long wondered if he didn’t maneuver somehow to avoid having to [...]

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Why I miss black people

ג׳ בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Friday 20 November 2009)

There are black-skinned people in Israel, but they are Jews from Ethiopia or migrant workers from Nigeria or refugees from Sudan. Except the “Black Hebrews” there are obviously no black people here like there are in America. Wherever black people go, they bring some awesome things. One of them is fried chicken. There is no [...]

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