Bullying and the MPAA

Folks, I've got a piece in Salon today about the MPAA's decision to give an R rating to a documentary about teenage bullying because of the language used by the bullies. “I believe we’re at a tipping point moment when...

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Haaretz Op-Ed

Extraordinarily honored to have an op-ed running in Haaretz today. It's currently trending on the front page. Check it out! For the many whose priorities have shifted away from Israel, now is the time to focus on specific issues. The...

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Queen Rania is an extremely attractive hypocrite

Yesterday (while I was writing oddly descriptive screeds about jellyfish) Haaretz reported that Queen Rania, the extremely attractive wife of King Abdullah II, has turned down numerous offers to have her children's book translated into Hebrew. What is her...

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Coldplay

From a New York Times article about karaoke killings in Asia. Karaoke-related killings are not limited to the Philippines. In the past two years alone, a Malaysian man was fatally stabbed for hogging the microphone at a bar and a...

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Is the Pope Catholic?

Since college, I've been trying my absolute best to quell the part of me that typifies a Reactionary Jew, such a person who shouts at the wind and lives with perpetual high blood pressure because of the world's sinister movements...

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The Sartorialist

When asked how the residents of the Fulton Houses, who are (by some standards) the permanent citizens of difficult economic times, are handling the recession, James shrugs

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Saturday Afternoon

Based on an essay by Edmund Wilson. In Jackson Square, the spidermums, spotted in Newport ash, are blooming like supplicants. A pack of cougars, celebrating a second marriage at the Magnolia bakery, are flaunting plastic diadems. In Central Park,...

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yeah...

I suppose it's blase to beat up on anyone in this administration these days, but honestly, this was too much. Since today is National Apathy Day (chemically, at least), I wanted to posit some kind of passing/flailing/stabbing moral inquisition...

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A Note on Comments...and You

Today's message is brought to you by The Decemberists, whose hyperliterate songs and musical acumen gleam in live performances such as the one I attended just this past week. Truthfully, I really just enjoyed this picture from the show. In...

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Fuck Yourself Jimmy Carter

I am almost ashamed to admit that I spent the better part of two hours in the Barnes & Noble on the 21st and 6th today, dumbing myself into rage while reading Jimmy Carter's new book "Palestine, Peace Not Apartheid."...

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