Scream

weird. this. chick. is.
a performance artist of sorts. she walks in the middle of a quasi road and just starts shrieking. 3 things.
A. she has a great shrieking form
B. she has the guts to actually do it
C. its just 2 funny!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtiMpyROj74

Shocking!

Two Cnn stories caught my eye. One was about some 8th graders who had sex in class. No, not in a classroom; this was done in CLASS. Teacher steps out, kids feel a little rowdy, and hey wahddaya know? Two of them start porkin' each other in front of the rest of the class. Extreme Sex Ed? Da Vinci Codesque Orgy? Anal Arithmetic? Or just sex being actively glorified to a pageant-like state. The next was some idiot hick priest whose empty church (not an infrequent phenomena) needed filling. He decided to send out fliers advocating "red hot sex" (as a topic in the church. )Apparently this ruse worked but people got upset at the lurid way he depicted the lawrds message. Whoopee. More sex selling. Sex in church, sex during class, sex for suppertime! I got nothing against getting some, but this stuff is jest nasty and overboard. If intimacy is a staple of good relationships, and it becomes non-intimate, what happens to relationships? Here's some links:
http://www.click2houston.com/news/14284329/detail.html
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/10/06/tn.sexy.pamphlets.wate

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Shakin' It

Five types of lulav shakers there be:
1. The Obnoxious Poker- This shaker is in his shaking groove and doesn't care if his sharp palm branch pokes you in the arse (repeatedly). Seen legally, this should be a Federal offence with 5-10 years of a different type of poking going on in maximum security.
2. The Blind Shaker- Old/Kiddy/Crazy/Visually impaired people should get SMALL lulavs as they tend to have a rough time with lulav manuevering. In legal terms, he who provides LARGE lulavs to these types should face a misdemeanor with a stiff fine. (jail time for repeat offenders)
3. The Prophetic Shakers-I have been religous my entire life with no pleasant teenage interludes, yet I cannot understand the look of pain on these intense shakers' faces. A deeply religous experience is NOT supposed to look like a baby delivery. Also, look for wild gyrations of body and lulav. sheesh! cool the holiness!
4. The Mainstream Shaker- Shows some interest in what he is doing . The most normal of shakers. Generally dads who have not been kept up all night, older teens,and younger adults fall into this most normal of shaker categories.
5. The Bored Shaker-I must admit that I fell into this category this succos. Look for listless shaking accompanied by a zoned out look. Included in this category are dads who have been kept up all night, Younger "cool" teens, and people who are in general depressed numbnuts. (My shul has like a HUGE percentage of the listless shaker.) My excuse? LSAT nerves. I'm taking the damn thing tomorrow, Monday October 1st, at 8:30 AM. And yes, I would consider myself a depressed numbnut right about now.

Columbia and the Ayatollah's Mouthpiece

Ahmedinajad and his political family were described to me by an Iranian expatriate as pimps who will do anything for more power,money, etc. Ahmedinajad is also well known for his oppression of women and basic civil rights. He is a two-faced populist, giving one face to hard-right extremists in his country,and quite another to the incredibly gullible people here in the US. Giving this lowlife a basically open forum is giving him exactly what he wants and is enabling what is (at best) a severely irresponsible country in the mid-east to continue its efforts against peace. The ARAB countries view Iran as a threat-if they are worried, we definitely should be. Things are unfortunately heating up again in the mid-east; an all out war is definitely a possibility. Israel's bombing of the Syrian nuclear site, America and England sending planes and other weapons to Israel and supposedly nuetral/friendly arab regimes. The only way I could justify Columbia's decision is to invite someone like Prince Bandar and another high-ranking Arab official to question Ahmedinajad. President Lee Bollinger is just not cut out for this position, and this whole thing just smells very bad. Ahmedinajad will probably just do his little two step. To quote Deborah Lipstadt, author of "Denying the Holocaust"
" What is wrong, I am repeatedly asked, with hearing a different perspective?...This is precisely the deniers' goal: They aim to confuse the matter by making it appear as if they are engaged in a genuine scholarly effort when , of course, they are not."
Dr. Lipstadt in this quote is explaining the reason she will not debate Holocaust deniers. She refuses to grant any sort of legitimacy to the deniers' lies and avoidance of crucial evidence in place of what they want to espouse. Ahmedinajad, as a Holocaust denier, understands the power of being granted recognition by scholars. Does Columbia's President truly understand this? I doubt it!

Black Hat Gospel

Here's some black hat gospel:

Halleluyah! Praise The Felt! Come yea faithful, rub your collective faces in my pure rabbit fur borse! Feeeeeeeeeeel the holiiiiinesssssss! yeahhhhhh....I WILL Purify thee in my holy sweaty band! I will shake the dust of ages on your unworthy faces! LET my brim Dip Low Into Your Soul! Who will spend 175 bucks on something they hate ! Praise thee for thy sheeplike obedience! Come forth, come forth! I don't care what you've got on under me, make sure that glistening crown of compressed mammal detritus shines forth! MO, Chareidi, Yeshivish, Baalebatish, BT....I want you all! WHO will step forth for the LAWwrd..

pant...pant...whooosh...anyone can hand me a blog rant towel...thank you...

Woof

i love dogs. i have never been seriously afraid of a dog in my life, excepting the case of my former crazy recluse neighbor who raised big german shepherds. he would go out with like 5 at a time. ooohhh! i also like cats, squirells, aardvarks, horses etc. i do not like rats or pigeons. i do not like michael vick. i would like to set all 10 of this neighbors' dogs on his enormous hairy calves. let's see you dodge that offence, mike!

Israeli Military Disobedience

In Israel, practically everybody is in the military, has been in the military, or will be in the military. Whenever I hear that an israeli soldier had something bad occur to him , I don't think: Hey he knew the risks etc., rather I think "Oy, a jewish boy was hurt." This is because Israelis don't have a choice whether to be in the military or not. The draft is compulsory. If there is a war in the mid east, and it involves Israel, it is because they were directly threatened by some vicious arab country and they had to fight for survival. All these soldiers are heroes. I do not think of them as soldiers so much as mainstream israelis who put their lives on the line for everone else. Which leads me to this posts' question-Is the disobedience justified? Are these soldiers wrong in refusing to evict jews from Hebron? Or are they entirely within their rights as israeli citizens and jews to protest the governments' expulsion of their fellow jews? Here's a quote from ARIEL SHARON I saw posted on Arutz Sheva-
“In contrast to the days of exile, it is not only the right, but the obligation of every Jew, in a Jewish democratic state, to stand up and warn his government, through passive resistance, of the disaster that it is bringing upon all of us. What Jews could not do in Germany and Poland before their extermination, they must do in their own country. They have to rise en masse and resist.”
-Wow.

First Post

I have never blogged before-but I have read other jewish blogs and enjoyed them. Ahem. First post.....Idea..........yah, here we go. First I'd like to comment about jewish blogs. Many are not very serious, but focus on the author's fascinating life. Others proclaim themselves as less than serious, and joke about jewish life in general. Some say ooooooh I'm super-serious and my opinion has weight. There are nasty blogs that attack individuals/judaism with happy abandon. There are self deprecating blogs that mock the blogger himself. There are blogs that attack this type of judaism or that, blogs that rant and rave. Most are full of crap. My blog will be a common sense jewish blog. (Surprise!) In it I will attempt in a humble kind of way to address serious and less than serious issues with the panache and vision befitting my humble self and my humble opinion. Humble, humble......mumble. I will try to keep it humorous yet pithy. For those of you who don't know what pithy means, I think it means to the point. Scoring 99 on my 6 hour Lit. Regents only gets me so far. All this leads me to my first post....