Archive for January 13th, 2006

Genetic Study on Ashkenazi Jews

Interesting.

Some 3.5 million of today’s Ashkenazi Jews about 40 percent of the total Ashkenazi population are descended from just four women, a genetic study indicates.
 
Those women apparently lived somewhere in Europe within the last 2,000 years, but not necessarily in the same place or even the same century, said lead author Dr. Doron Behar [...]

DD vs KFC

We already knew that actress Pamela Anderson had a problem with KFC. Now she is stepping up the fight against the Colonel.

Pamela Anderson is leading a charge to remove a bust of KFC founder Colonel Harland Sanders from the state Capitol.
 
The actress called the Kentucky native’s likeness “a monument to cruelty” to chickens in a [...]

JIB Awards 2005: Miscellaneous Thoughts

A number of somewhat disconnected points relating to the awards.
 
1. Emailing me expressing how dumb the awards are, or how I should disqualify those who are canvassing for votes, or how I should have excluded various blogs on the basis of their readership, is a waste of time. And since it is my time being [...]

Israellycool Podcast #33: Shooting the Breeze

Israellycool Podcast #33 is now up on my podcast site.
 
On this week’s show, I chat with political analyst and journalist, Jeremy Wimpfheimer, about the hot topics in the region, including Ariel Sharon and the political implications of his predicament, democracy vs treason, Pat Robertson, and Iran.
 
And if you are an Israellycool Podcast listener, please stick [...]