Archive for December 13th, 2004

“Abstinence, Oh-Yeah!”

Good news for fundamentalist Muslims in Uganda: you can meet at least 72 virgins, without having to blow yourself up.

Hundreds of virgins gathered in the Ugandan capital on Friday to meet the country’s first lady and renew their pledges to abstain from premarital sex.
It’s great to see such a celebration of religious values bereft [...]

More Smells from France

Not content with having the smelliest cheese, France is now home to the smelliest computer technology.

The first pioneering steps have been taken in France to add one of the most emotive of the five senses – the sense of smell – to desktop PCs.
 
Life and art already jostle for our attention through myriad Internet sites, [...]

Quote of the Day

“My son loved the army and loved what he did in the army..Sayid believed that if we live in this country we should both give to it and receive from it. That’s what all of my children believe in…this is our country; all youngsters should go join the army.”
- Yosef Jaja, father of Sgt. Sayid [...]

Misplaced Priorities

The “Orthodox Anarchist” Dan writes about the arrest of his friend Laila by IDF troops:

There’s just one problem with this. Laila (like the majority of people who were engaged in the Budrus demonstration) is Israeli, born and raised in Haifa, and Jewish. And that is an all-the-more important statement, because it demonstrates that it is [...]

Like a Surgeon

When I was younger, I wanted to be a doctor. However, my aversion to blood and gore, coupled with the threat of legal action if things went wrong, led me to abandon that dream.
 
If you are like me and cannot stomach performing real surgery, but would like to see what it is like, you can [...]

Israeli Democracy – An Outsider View

For those readers who may have doubts about my objectivity when I describe the virtues of Israeli democracy, you can now hear it from an “outsider.”
 
Scott from Slant Point has been on a business trip in Israel for the past week or so, and he has been struck by Israel’s democracy.

The residents of Israel [...]

Happy Anti-Corruption Day

I may be a few days late with this..but this is just too good to ignore.
 
I am, of course, referring to the UN’s International Anti-Corruption Day, which took place on December 9th (Hat tip: Sherry, from AWH).
 
We already knew the UN was hypercritical, but this just goes to show you how hypercritical.
 
You can also check out the the [...]

Latest Terror Attack

PLO Arab terrorists last night killed 5 IDF soldiers – members of a Bedouin reconnaissance unit – and wounded 6 others.
 
Proponents of the cycle-of-violence theory of the conflict will view this attack as the response to some Israeli military action, which itself was a response to another terror attack. To these people, I say thus: [...]

Return of the Israeli Guy

Guess who’s back?

Shimon Works the Crowd

Shimon Peres winds up telling his favorite joke about his good friend Kofi Annan.
 

“So Kofi then turns to the driver and says ’Listen. When you went through the red light, I didn’t say anything. But why on earth are you stopping at a green light?’” 
 

“The Israeli driver looks at Kofi as if he was mad.  ‘Are you [...]