Archive for February 10th, 2005

Did Someone Say ‘Ceasefire’?

It seems that my concerns regarding the “ceasefire” agreed upon in Egypt a few days ago are being realized.

Hamas announced earlier Thursday that it had fired 46 mortar shells and rockets at Israeli communities in and around the Strip.
 
A second barrage was launched several hours later. One mortar shell was fired at a settlement in [...]

Precious Bones

Does this man has a skeleton in his closet? Or has he hidden it somewhere else?

The remains of an extinct metre-high human species have become virtually as hidden as they were before their discovery last year rocked the world of palaeontology.
 
One of Indonesia’s leading palaeontologists is refusing to hand back the remains to the team [...]

Harming Their Image

Who would’ve thought that North Korea had no sense of humor?

The North Korean embassy in Prague is calling for a ban on Team America: World Police in the Czech Republic.
 
“It harms the image of our country,” a daily newspaper, Lidove Noviny, quoted an official at the embassy saying about the movie that stars a [...]

Important JIB Awards Announcement

Up until today, I was pretty satisfied with how the JIB Awards were going.
 
Sure, there was occasional ribbing and a small dose of pettiness, but most of it seemed in good humor.
 
However, after I received an email from one of the most talented Jewish bloggers out there, asking that he be pulled from the contest, [...]