tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-289525062011-09-23T01:24:59.728-04:00GreyGuyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14660174652373154424noreply@blogger.comBlogger4171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28952506.post-1157400984025165452006-09-04T16:10:00.000-04:002006-09-04T16:30:49.963-04:00

"You know what I'm gonna tell those Jews when I get to Israel, don't you Herman?" a then Governor George W. Bush allegedly asked a reporter for the Austin American-Statesman.When the journalist, Ken Herman, replied that he did not know, Bush reportedly delivered the punch line: "I'm telling 'em they're all going to hell."Of course, I'm a Canadian Jew and not Israeli so maybe he didn't mean me.

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One of my guilty pleasures has gone all macaca on me. The latest instalment of Survivor will feature teams broken down by race: African-American, Hispanic, East and Southeast Asian, and White. Just what I've always wanted to see, a bunch of suburban whites whining about reverse discrimination every time "one of their own" is voted off the island (I'm white, before someone shrieks "reverse

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And speaking of American race relations, Florida politician and comedian Katherine Harris recently stated in Florida Baptist Witness that God created the United States to be a "nation of secular laws" and the the separaqtion of Church and State is "lie we have been told". What's more, not electing Christians to political office will permit governing bodies to "legislate sin"."If you are not

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And speaking more of crazy Americans, a "U.S. State Department official in Toronto is accused of taking strippers on holidays and choosing jewellery for his wife as payment to push through visa applications".Behind the grey facade of the U.S. consulate in Toronto, Michael John O'Keefe Sr. was allegedly fast-tracking visa applications and reversing visa refusals for 21 people at the behest of

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American actor, Maulik Pancholy

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RAMSEY MURDER SUSPECT DRINKS GLASS OF WATER, WIPES MOUTH(from the front page of the New York Times)

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It was an immensely appealing experiment, both in its idealism and in its simplicity: Let young Israeli and Arab musicians play together in an orchestra to show that communication and cooperation were possible between peoples who had long fought each other. [...] By the end of the workshop Israelis, Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese and Egyptians had learned to play together and live together, and

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How do you like the view? This is the view you'll have once America, Iran, Israel, and Syria are through with us all, if you have a view at all."I'm tired of being held hostage by this situation." This statement has won me universal scorn from friends on either "side" who claim to care about such things, although as they crank up the rhetoric and turn any opposing view to white noise, it's

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I want to apologize specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested on a D.U.I. charge.That's nice, Mel. By the way, how's that Disney/ABC miniseries on the Holocaust coming along? Just dropped? Dropped today, you say? Shocking.But would it have killed Disney and ABC to admit that they're

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Dan Savage, the originator of santorum (named after everyone's favourite American vitriol-spouting American family man and American politician, Rick Santorum) savages New York and Washington state courts recent decision to uphold bans on same-sex marriages in those states in the Sunday Times. I wish I could turn a phrase like Savage.In New York, the court ruled in effect that irresponsible

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I'm back from camping to find that former N'Sync (who?) caterwauler Lance Bass (again, who?) is following the Rosie O'Donnell school of outcoming and announcing his homosexuality - how shocking *yawn* - as his career slides. If only I could use the same trick when I need a job, but I came out like the rest of is plebes, at a risky time in my early 20s when I risked alienating my friends and

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YES(John Stewart, via Jewschool)

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New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd went into a bit of a slump after her last book tanked (and a very bad book it was indeed; at least, the first two and half pages were very bad). It's nice to see her returning to form with her latest patronisation of America's fratjock President (it's worth getting the free trail just for this article, otherwise google her on Technorati.No matter what the

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Zombie food in 28 Days Later and all too brieflt adult King Peter in the vastly overrated The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, English actor Noah Huntley.(Cuter without the cigarette dangling from his lips, of course)

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Israeli friends call to complain about mutual Arab friends. Some Arab friends won't talk to me because I'm Jewish. Arab and Israeli friends are sniping at each other using their MSN online names since they don't have the courage to contact one another directly: "David's mother is ... ", "Ahmed = ... ". One Arab friend who does talk to me wants all Israelis chased into the sea. An Israeli

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A week with spotty Internet service at my parents' cottage on the shores of Lake Winnipeg on the other side of the country to find the Israeli government and military, the Hamas government in Palestine, and Hezbollah all doing their very best to hasten the end of the world. In the words of Joni Mitchell,It's peaceful with a good [book]* and some treesOut of touch with the breakdown of this

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A Marine who wrote and performed a song about killing members of an Iraqi family has temporarily shelved the tune, a record producer said Monday.[...]"Hadji Girl" surfaced in a four-minute video on the Internet. In the clip, Belile sings about a Marine who falls in love with an Iraqi woman and then encounters hostility from her family. Relatives kill the woman, prompting the Marine to gun down

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My torment does not grow as the long days of my confinement pass. It remains a torturous ache that throbs within me, always pulsing, never ceasing. How I long to be free!Yesterday I saw a bird sitting on the window ledge not a tail span from where I lay. How juicy it looked! How delicious! But try as I may I could not get at it, separated as I was by the web mesh that forms in part my

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British actors Jeremy Northam and Clive OwenJeremy NorthamClive OwenIt's the British accents and the rugged, handsome, uneven looks. These two could make a tourist sandwich out of me any time.

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Clients of a downtown Toronto gym were shocked and repulsed when a local blogger's lungs and head exploded this morning."It was, like, so gross! I got brains in my powershake! Ew!" exclaimed one witness, who may never previously have encountered brains of any type."He was on the treadmill and suddenly blam! squoosh! splatter! It was like in Scanners when they made those people's heads explode

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America's Sweetheart was born in Toronto, Canada in 1892. Given the name Gladys Smith at birth, she would later change it to Mary Pickford. When she is remembered - if she is remembered - it is with this nickname, all of her pioneering achievements long since forgotten: the inventor of an acting style suitable to movies (and later television); the first actor to gain complete creative control

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Speaking of silent movie stars ... Star of the silent screen, Ramón Novarro.

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Bloggers across the world were stunned and horrified at the news that a 47-year-old woman from Ottumwa, Iowa killed her gerbil and an entire bowl of goldfish simply because her ranking on a popular link exchange site had slipped."So yeah. I spent all this time on this post on finally finding a brand of ketchup I can use in cool recipes and just on hot dog's when I feel like just hotdog's, wrote

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As a local business supporting Jew, I'm not thrilled at the association and the weird phrasing in this article:Residents of Benton County, in the northwest corner of Arkansas, are proud citizens of the Bible Belt. At last count, they filled 39 Baptist, 27 United Methodist and 20 Assembly of God churches. For decades, a local hospital has begun meetings with a reading from the New Testament and

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Hundreds have been injured and thousands more are missing and feared dead in cities all across Japan after an attack by enormous humaning landships driven by whales ploughed across the heavily populated northern Pacific Rim country this weekend."I was just doing my thing, walking along the street, singing a song to my wife when all of a sudden this gigantic thing that looks like a coral reef on

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There are fools running through Toronto with flags on their cars, draped in flag capes, with flag makeup on their faces, and shouting at people across the street who are wearing different flags on their faces and shoulders. If this is what it's like here where nobody could care less about soccer, I'm very glad not to be in Germany.I watch sports, but I restrict it to men's diving, purely for the

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For the first time in nearly two decades, television spinoffs from the original 1960's "Star Trek" series have ended, so fans are banding together to make their own episodes. Fan films have been around for years, particularly those related to the "Star Wars" movies. But now they can be downloaded from the Web, and modern computer graphics technology has lent them surprising special

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(My gratitude and apologies to Jane Austen and to her estate, especially for the bits lifted directly from Pride and Prejudice and Emma and mutilated)It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man not possession of a good cup of coffee in the morn's earliest hour must be in want of a steady nerve. However although he may be desirous of firm hand and full clarity of thought that the

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According to a friend who is forty-five, I am too young to complain about age at my tender thirty-five. I'm still young enough for my dreams to be realised, to have a bright and chipper view of the world, and to have my genitals working with their complete and proper function. I think he said something along those lines when he was thirty-five too.Since I can't complain, I'll blame. Someone

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Man of Steel super pouter, Brandon Routh. I've alway s had a thing for sexy nerds with glasses. I'd take Clark Kent over Superman any day. Lois was nuts.

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If a job you wanted goes to someone you know, like, respect, and admit will do the job well, you're not allowed to hate the fucking asshole who swiped your perfect job.(From Despair, Inc.)

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Adblock(via Wonkette)It's nice when someone you pretended to think was cool in high school so you can look cool actually stays cool.

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After his triumphant empty gesture at Auschwitz, the Pope has issued yet another proclamation to the non-existent Emperor of the Holy Roman "can you believe we're not really an empire?" Empire that - astoundingly - the broke absolultely no new ground. The proclamation's topic was that ever-popular, never-tired obsession, the sanctity of traditional marriage as it is defiled by those lego blocks

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And speaking of family values, Globe and Mail (the only way to get in without paying is through a search engine, for some reason) movie critic struggles to find 13 good things to say about Hollywood's latest foray into uncalled for nostalgia, "The Omen":4. Stiles's enunciation is consistently excellent and her pauses emphatic, at times, distractingly so. "He's . . . different" she says of her

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Hot winged mutant and Claire's irritating, experimenting boyfriend on "Six Feet Under", American actor Ben Foster.

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When Alexander of Macedon set out from Pella three hundred and thirty-four years before the Common Era he said his intention was to exact revenge from the Persians for their destruction of Athens a century and a half previously. Persia was the largest empire that had ever existed, as far as both they and the Greeks knew, and their borders reached the ends of the known world. Beyond them lay

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A counterterrorism sweep Friday resulted in the largest arrest ever made by the nation's anti-terrorism forces and raised, for the first time, the spectre of homegrown terrorists striking Canadians from within our borders. [...] Police have recovered three tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertilizer in the raids. Commissioner McDonell noted that this amount was three times the amount used by Timothy

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(historical context here and here)Inspired by the awesome "New York: A Documentary Film"

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Oh those brave conservatives! Those bold, courageous keepers of the way! Those noble guards against the decline of Western Civilization into moral turpitude! Their continuing quest to demonstrate that the world was a much better place in the 1950s has taken on new and groundbreaking proportions. And as for the rest of us? Maybe we'll get our restricted country clubs and Edsels back! Do we

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"Ice Cream", by Edvard Munch (courtesy of the Albino Neutrino collection of Screams)

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Something is amiss with our hiring system when potential employers (or vomit inducers, as I playfully like to call them) can look at a paragon of fresh, employable, slavery meat such as me and pass me over in favour of someone who already has a job. Disloyalty is an attribute, I suppose.What's more, I am a proactive self-starting, effective communicator with first-rate interpersonal skills who

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A week or two ago my inbox was inundated with emails pleading with me to watch the YouTube video of the guy with fantastic adlib talents bluffing his way through what he though was a job interview with the BBC, but wasn't. Due to some confusion at BBC's reception that day, he had been sent into a live broadcast interview on the legalities of file sharing. I think he fared rather well,

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"They seem the unlikeliest of relatives. One was a fearsome warlord whose name became a byword for savagery. The other is a mild-mannered accountancy academic from Florida". It sounds like the beginning of an insipid Hollywood buddy movie starring Robin Williams and Jackie Chan in which they do a little dance, make a little love (not to each other - it's Hollywood), and conquer a swath of Asia

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Some American data mining robots my have to be put in the storage shed for a little while. "The European Court of Justice has blocked an EU-US agreement that requires airlines to transfer passenger data to the US authorities".Since 2004 European airlines have routinely handed over 34 bits of information on every passenger they fly to the States, including names, addresses, telephone numbers, and

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From my fourth story window I watch as people crawl along the pavement. They sway at the crosswalk before red hand melts and they slide before the waiting cars. Last weekend I'd called my super and asked him, politely (it was May after all) to turn on the heat just a squidge. Now my cat refuses to frolic and my head is a shaggy watermelon. My cactus is melting. My glass of water is sweating.

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Persian-American scholar and author of No god but God : The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (current voracious read), Reza Aslan. Check him out on The Colbert Report. He's cool (for a scholar of the History of Religion).

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What ever happened to those rumours a few months ago about Dubya being back on the sauce?

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The charger on my cell phone broke; a 2-millimetre square doodad on my expensive Swedish cell phone's charger snapped off this morning instead of removing itself smoothly from the phone. My phone was Lorena Bobbitt to the charger's John.At first I was confused. My phone is European, Scandinavian even. Scandinavia = quality! The simple phrase "Imported from Sweden" evoke images of sturdy milk

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Amitai Sandy (29), graphic artist and publisher of Dimona Comix Publishing, from Tel-Aviv, Israel, has followed the unfolding of the "Muhammad cartoon-gate" events in amazement, until finally he came up with the right answer to all this insanity - and so he announced today the launch of a new anti-Semitic cartoons contest - this time drawn by Jews themselves!"We'll show the world we can do the

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Since I'm a gay, lefty, Jewish Canadian, I suppose I'm obligated to mention yesterday's Canadian election. Here goes. This is my comment on the yesterday's Canadian election. I did not eat my ballot.It had never occurred to me before that eating my ballot was a possible course of action once behind the voting piece of cardboard. According to Elections Canada's Frequently Asked Questions, a

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"You haven't seen 'Brokeback Mountain'?" It's the same reaction of shock and lightly simmered outrage I get when I tell people that I - a real live, fully-out-of-the-closet, multiple-hair-product-buying gay man do not swoon for Martha Stewart. Not do I wish I could talk and do dismissive hand movement and finger snaps like Ru Paul. I may have procured myself copy of Madonna's newest, but I

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This is the kind of crap North American Jews have to put up with a lot.

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Cartoon by Bill Schorr.

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LOL! And,like, all the bubbles in my head keep totally popping and stuff! LOL! ;)Via Mr V

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Almost half of Europe's Jews are descended from just four women, according to a new study. [...] The four women are thought to have lived in the Middle East about 1,000 years ago but they may not have lived anywhere near other, according to the study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics. However, they bequeathed genetic signatures to their descendents, which do not appear in

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I set a deadline for myself so of course I didn't meet it. One thousand measly words were all I needed to write. One thousand tiny, insignificant words in a pretty blurby picture that will dazzle a potential publisher - a biggee in the Canadian market, no less - who had already expressed interest on a book I'm pretending to write. My self-imposed deadline, conceived on Friday, was today.

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Winter and cabin fever do bizarre things to one's sense of propriety. I woke up this morning and was amused to no end to realise that with my bedhead, I look like a Dr Seuss character.When I was a teenager I had hair similar to this, but on purpose ... it was the 80s.

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Courtesy of Mr V

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A conversation with Dr DG during a commercial break in "Family Guy":DG: How many guys have you dated in the past couple of months?Me: Define "dating".DG: Um ... been on more than three dates with.Me: Dunno ... four, I guess. No. Five. No. Four. The one with bad breath only got two dates.DG: God! What do you do to them?Me: [shrug] Guess I'm not meeting the right guys.DG: Hmmmmmph ...

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(pillaged from Americablog)Almost as much fun as watching Jake Gylenhaal bottom for Heath Ledger!

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What kind of an era do we now live in where one friend won't euthanise another simply because it's immoral to kill someone just because they only have a cold? What a world we live in! Next thing you know they'll be telling us that pollution isn't bad and that democratically elected leaders have the power to do anything they like and have absolutely no worried of accountability whatsoever to

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I've just heard the new Eurythmocs song. I wonder of this is how the boomers felt when Jefferson Airplane mutated into Starship and oozed "We Built This City (On Rock and Roll)". Yeeeesh!

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I don't get nervous about dates anymore. I've been on too many to think of them - most of them - as anything but the last five minutes of that cheezy, over-theatrical sitcom ("Reba" springs immediately to mind) you accidentally turn on early and decide to watch until the show you really want to see comes on; not what you wanted, but it's the necessary lead up that will remind you why you like

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...from my fantasy honeymoon with Noah Huntley,...machete victim in "28 Days Later" and adult Peter (Click; it's a great pic) in that new mediocre Narnia movie. The honeymoon's over and the marriage was a fantasy, but it was a good fantasy.

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Christmas lights In Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Pillaged from Mr V.

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"When he saw me still sitting, he asked if I was going to stand up and I said, 'No, I'm not.' And he said, 'Well, if you don't stand up, I'm going to have to call the police and have you arrested.' I said, 'You may do that.'"

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So rarely do I respond to taunts on other blogs - or even use the word 'blog', but Mr V is a unique guy :PDoes basing your music and image on ultra left-wing politics while selling your song about urban poverty to hock Honda Civics make you a player or a sell out? Mr V "loves" M.I.A.'s new gas-guzzling ads (with the profanity removed, of course). I don't care for the ads, still like her albums,

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- from PostSecret

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I can eat again! The sun set in Winnipeg at approximately 6:45PM yesterday evening, bringing to a close 24 hours of no food, no water, no sex (big deal; I'm staying with my parents), and, bringing me the most difficulty, no coffee. Yom Kippur is the most holy of all the holidays on the Jewish calendar. Because we're Jews, the most holy is, of course, the most difficult."May your Yom Kippur be

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I've just been at my parents' cottage on the shores of Lake Winnipeg. I'd forgotten how pleasant it is not to need my iPod drowning out dirty city noises. It's wonderful to walk and hear the birds, the waves, and the wind through through the trees.My phone cam takes half decent pictures, although it doesn't do justice to the gorgeous fall foliage. Still, I got some pretty nice shots. Here's

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My parents lead a primitive existence. They only have a dial-up internet connection. They have cable, but not digital cable. They only got Windows last year and my mother swears that it was invented by demons. They bought a cappuccino maker but refuse to use the milk steamer. They don't believe in fabric softener.Off I go to Canada's wild, wild West. I will plunge into an existence of

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Writing a novel, I said once, is like trying to make the Mountains of Edom out of Lego blocks. Or to build the whole of Paris, buildings, squares, and boulevards, down to the last street bench, out of matchsticks. - Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

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Alabama State Senator Hank Erwin gives his theory on why Katrina hit the Gulf Coast.New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast have always been known for gambling, sin and wickedness. It is the kind of behavior that ultimately brings the judgment of God. [...] [T]he signature of New Orleans is the French Quarter, Bourbon Street. It is known for sin. And you have a Bible that says God will judge

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Someboday in Toronto is very strange. A quick check of my stats showed that a Torontonian came to this site with the search, "Who is Bonhomme? What kind of creature is he?" Assuming I'm the Bonhomme in question, I'm not sure how to answer. I've never been very good with open-ended questions. You tell me what kind of creature I am.

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President Bush is being briefed by Rumsfeld who tells him 3 Brazilian soldiers have been killed. Bush pauses for a minute and asks nervously:"How many is a brazillion?" - via Mr V

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Our hearts were in the right place but our culinary abilities were, as far as I could tell, down the street in the pub. Yesterday my good friend Sexy Realtor and I decided to make jerk chicken tacos. Our success was limited, and our tummies left half empty.It started off quite easily. The chicken jerked perfectly and the wine – guava juice for me - flowed swiftly. Our supper's fate began to

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I am old enough for technology to pass me by. I laughed at my parents as they struggled with DVDs, cell phones, and Windows, but now I am old enough to feel left out by the march of innovation.I first noticed this morning as I was reading an article on the BBC site that made absolutely no sense to me. It talked of a deadly plague that was killing not people, but game characters all over the

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... but my cat is the most elegantly gorgeous cat that has ever existed.His name is נודניק (pronounced "nude Nick"), which means "pain in the butt", more or less, in Hebrew.

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New Yorkers always think they know the real thing when it comes to Chinese food. Forty years ago it was egg rolls, chop suey and drinks with paper umbrellas. Then it was General Tso's chicken and sesame noodles.But over the past decade, as large communities of people from India, Peru, Korea, Trinidad and Guyana have formed here, New York has had to expand its ideas about what Chinese food can

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Despite cancellations from Air Canada, due to union woes, and Northwest and Delta, due to bankruptcy, Boeing's 787 Dreamliner has already notched up an impressive 200 orders in one year. It boasts all sorts of technological features I don't pretend to understand (lightweight poly-something), but my homosexuality is all a-twitter over its radical new approach to interior design.I prefer it over

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By raising the fines that would be levied against offending broadcasters some fifteenfold, to a fee of about $500,000 per crudity broadcast, and by threatening to revoke the licenses of repeat polluters, the Senate seeks to return to the public square the gentler tenor of yesteryear, when seldom were heard any scurrilous words, and famous guys were not foul mouthed all day. Yet researchers who

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Once upon a time, a bridegroom jokingly recited his marriage vows over a skeletal finger protruding from the earth. After placing his ring on the bone, his mirth turned to horror when a grasping hand burst forth, followed by a corpse in a tattered shroud, her dead eyes staring as she proclaimed, "My husband."This chilling Jewish folk tale hails from a cycle of stories about the great 16th-century

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In an interview with the New York Times, Michael Brown, former director of FEMA, demonstrates the various qualities that made him such a capable leader before, during, and after the cataclysm of Hurricane Katrina (note the ring of awesomely powerful credibility surrounding his words):Effective leadership and communication"I am having a horrible time," Mr. Brown said he told Mr. Chertoff and a

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This morning while sitting in a café, innocently reading my book and minding my own business, I was flirted with by the mind-blowingly talented and mind-numbingly sexy Gael García Bernal.Admittedly, it wasn't really the mind-blowingly talented and mind-numbingly sexy Gael García Bernal. However, the precocious man who took me happily away from my book could have easily been his equally sexy (no

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Aggressive line-cutting at lunch today inspires you to be more assertive. There are many things to do this week, and you will be able to swiftly plough through them all if you abandon all pretence of being nice, courteous and giving two fucks about the feelings of others. For the next few days, permit yourself to become that pushy jerk off who elbows through the crowd on

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Curious George is every 2-year-old sticking his finger into the light socket, pouring milk onto the floor to watch it pool, creating chaos everywhere. One reason the mischievous monkey is such a popular children's book character is that he makes 4- to 6-year-olds feel superior: fond memories, but we've given all that up now.[...]But in truth, "Curious George" almost didn't make it onto the page.

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[Brown] is the former head of the Arabian Horse Association but his official biography says he was also in charge of emergency services in the city of Edmond, Oklahoma, in the late 1970s. However, a spokesman for the city told Time Magazine that his role was really that of an intern - nobody reported to him.I want a job that I can screw up in just about every possible way after having padded my

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"I had the typical aspiration to be signed to a big label, just like anybody else," he admits. "But after I didn't hear back from a few places, and when the feedback I did get made no sense to me, I started to think about what I really wanted".You have to love (or rather, I have to love) a singer/songwriter who gives titles like "They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back

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American actor, Daniel Dae Kim

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There are very few sounds with the awesome power to cut through the battery of drums and gravely guitars of grunge circa 1992. The eardrum-puncturing shrieks of little girls at play, however, reduces even Nirvana to quiet, Sunday afternoon jazz.I am across the street from a Catholic primary school for girls. What is it about that very special ear-bloodying timbre? Why do little girls screech

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English actor, Naveen Andrews

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And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this – this is working very well for them. - via And Now, José?Barbara Bush, Dubya's mommy, speaking in the notion that many of Katrina's survivors, now in Texas, are contemplating remaining in Texas. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

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American model and actor, Jason Olive

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When I was 5, my family moved to a country where only my father could speak the language. It must have been scary, but all I remember of it was coming to the realisation that there are many ways to pronounce the letter "r" and all its counterparts in other alphabets. Because I was young and my brain was still elastic, I picked up the language much quicker than my mother. When she went shopping

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Five days after the Katrina has hit and still tens of thousands are left desperate, with no food, no water, no way out of the city. There are reports of rapes, gunfire, and massive explosions as bodies are left to rot in the streets or among survivors at the Convention Centre because there is no way of removing them in the anarchy.Michael Brown, Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency

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CNN reporter Anderson Cooper, reporting from one of the myriad destroyed towns on the Gulf, when he rips into Democrat Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu (who didn't actually deserve to be the target of the tirade). You're sexy when you seethe, Anderson.

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