Since kradical wrote his litany of lame excuses for supporting DragonCon and thus putting more money into Ed Kramer's pockets - money which has in the past been used to pervert the justice system and start a talent agency for "young men" (please feel free to shiver) - others have been coming out of the woodwork with their tumblr and blog posts to ( Read more... )

I have been googling DragonCon too much and talking about it too much and I know that. I have even been finding articles about it and arguing with the people who post on it. I decided to respond to the objections concerning the boycott of DragonCon in this post and I realize that I should be less acerbic about it. I realized this by thinking about ( Read more... )

Over time, I calmed down. In the months and years that followed, I watched more episodes of “Sesame Street,” movies, TV and popular entertainment. I found myself in an alien world where womanliness is not a secret, but a mystery. A place where a woman’s body is considered a beautiful thing ( Read more... )

If someone pulled out a smartphone to text or update Facebook while I'm trying to Daven on Rosh Hashannah, I would assume I had a psak to use a firearm.

The secular beatification of Rachel Corrie sums up everything that is wrong with modern solidarity with Palestine

Opinions, ideas, counter-flames?

I was in Starbucks today and they have set up the tables so that there's a bench where almost everyone sits. So these girls got in the table next to me and they pretty much surrounded me. So I couldn't help hearing the one talk about getting divorced from Eliezer. Man, Eliezer is just a jerk. But she talked about how things were getting distant and ( Read more... )

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http://drewkaplan.info/30days30drinks.htm - My friend Drew decided to start mixing drinks as a youtube series. He's a rabbi.

How was your Shavuos? Learn anything new?

It's my un-scientific experience that Jews in America tend to favor Baseball as their favorite spectator sport.

Does this ring true with you?