by Adam | Wednesday 29 February 2012
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...
Click here to continue reading "Bullying and the MPAA" »
by Adam | Friday 29 July 2011
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...
Click here to continue reading "Haaretz Op-Ed" »
by Adam | Thursday 15 July 2010
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...
Click here to continue reading "Queen Rania is an extremely attractive hypocrite" »
by Adam | Monday 8 February 2010
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...
Click here to continue reading "Coldplay" »
by Adam | Thursday 12 March 2009
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...
Click here to continue reading "Is the Pope Catholic?" »
by Adam | Sunday 8 March 2009
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
Click here to continue reading "The Sartorialist" »
by Adam | Sunday 28 September 2008
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,...
Click here to continue reading "Saturday Afternoon" »
by Adam | Friday 20 April 2007
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...
Click here to continue reading "yeah..." »
by Adam | Thursday 29 March 2007
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...
Click here to continue reading "A Note on Comments...and You" »
by Adam | Friday 15 December 2006
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."...
Click here to continue reading "Fuck Yourself Jimmy Carter" »