Archive for December 9th, 2004

One Day at a NATO Meeting

Everything was going well for Colin Powell as he spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. That is, until the unidentified man wearing a purple band around his neck decided to accept his friend’s dare. Moments later, Colin Powell was grimacing in pain. 
 

 
(Reuters)

Anti-French Neurosis

What’s this? We seem to have struck a nerve with the French:
In an interview with Army Radio Thursday, French Ambassador to Israel Gerard Araud took a far less conciliatory stance than he took just a couple of days ago in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.
“I think you have an anti-French neurosis,” Araud said. He [...]

A Tale of Two Jewish Blogs

This week, I discovered that two Jewish blogs were no more: Protocols and Reb Lazer’s Shtibble. While both were concerned with Jewish content, you could not find two more different blogs.
 
In my mind, Protocols was nothing more than a glorified Jewish gossip blog. While important Jewish issues were covered, it was hardly the place for getting any [...]

If I Were a Rickman..

Hollywood actor Alan Rickman, known for mostly playing villains and jerks in the movies, may not be such a good actor after all. There is a strong chance these roles were not such a stretch for him.
Alan Rickman is about to become the latest Hollywood star to light the blue touchpaper on the powderkeg that [...]

Power of the Dude

There is more to dude than meets the eye…

Dude, you’ve got to read this.
 
A linguist from the University of Pittsburgh has published a scholarly paper deconstructing and deciphering the word “dude,” contending it is much more than a catchall for lazy, inarticulate surfers, skaters, slackers and teenagers.
 
An admitted dude-user during his college years, Scott Kiesling [...]

Close But No Cigar

Last night I watched the third instalment of The Ambassador.
 
[To say this show is addictive would be an understatement. And I am sure fellow Hasbara (Israel advocacy) junkies would agree with me].
 
Last night, both the men’s and women’s teams were given the task of creating an advertisement for promoting Israel, and then selling it to [...]