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Gypsy News: France Expels Many Romany Gypsies

August 21st, 2010 · 16 Comments · Britain, Civil Liberties, Culture, Europe, Feminism, Globalization, Immigration, Islam, Judaism, Personal, Politics, Religion

LONDON — Europe is start­ing to get sick of modern-day Gyp­sies: More than 100 Gyp­sies, or Roma, were put on a char­ter flight to their native Roma­nia on Fri­day, the sec­ond day in a row that France has expelled Roma in a much-criticized gov­ern­ment crack­down… Pres­i­dent Nico­las Sarkozy announced the crack­down on Roma in late […]

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“Hey Baby” and Anti-Male Violence">Hey Baby” and Anti-Male Violence

June 19th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Britain, Business, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Europe, Feminism, Israel, Media, Personal, Politics, Sex, The Middle East

Mod­ern, angry women now have an out­let of their own through a vio­lent, anti-male video game that pro­motes the misandry that has become so preva­lent in mod­ern, West­ern cul­ture: Ever had one of those seem­ingly end­less days? All you want to do is to get home… You’re the last one out of the office. Its […]

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Birthright Israel: Footage of (Pre-State) Israel

May 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Boston, Britain, Civil Liberties, Culture, Europe, Immigration, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Massachusetts, Media, Palestine, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War

Every won­der what Israel and the region of Pales­tine looked like before the Jew­ish state declared inde­pen­dence in 1948? Here is some recently-unearthed footage — in color! — from that time. (Hebrew with Eng­lish sub­ti­tles.) I am com­pletely amazed at how much the coun­try as changed — espe­cially Tel Aviv and the Cen­ter region. The […]

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Jerusalem Day

May 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, Britain, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Culture, Europe, Islam, Jihad, Judaism, Law, Palestine, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War on Terror

JERUSALEM — Today is Jerusalem Day in Israel, which cel­e­brates when the city was reuni­fied under Jew­ish con­trol dur­ing the Six-Day War in 1967. I had wanted to write an essay on the sub­ject, but David Gold­man had already writ­ten what I had wanted to say: “The pas­sions that rage over Jerusalem reveal the desire […]

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Globalization and Sports

April 18th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Baseball, Boston, Britain, Culture, Egypt, Europe, Globalization, Immigration, Israel, Massachusetts, Personal, Red Sox, Sports, The Middle East, Traveling

JERUSALEM — Joe Queenan seem­ingly dis­likes for­eign fans of sports teams (those who who are not from the cities of those teams): I do not object to Yan­kees fans in prin­ci­ple, so long as they are home­grown, prefer­ably natives of the Bronx or Yonkers. (Yan­kees fans born in Queens or Brook­lyn, it goes with­out saying, […]

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Replace Religion With… What?

April 9th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Britain, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Globalization, Immigration, Islam, Jihad, Politics, Religion, Sex, terrorism

The­ol­ogy is a device for help­ing agnos­tics to stay within the Church of Eng­land.” — the British tele­vi­sion show “Yes, (Prime) Min­is­ter” In most science-fiction tele­vi­sion shows and movies rang­ing from “Star Trek” to “Doc­tor Who” to “Fire­fly,” reli­gion is shown in the future as non-existent at best or as an out­dated relic of primitive […]

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Tea or Coffee?

March 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Britain, Culture, Politics, War

First, we had the tea par­ties. Now, we have the cof­fee par­ties. Some­times I think the war between the red and white roses is going to repeat itself in all of its polar­iz­ing glory… Continue reading

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Future of Journalism

March 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Boston, Britain, Business, Journalism, Massachusetts, Media, Personal, The Boston Globe

BOSTON — Dan Kennedy, writ­ing in the Guardian, argues that the future of jour­nal­ism is local: …large national and inter­na­tional news organ­i­sa­tions exist in a dif­fer­ent uni­verse from the grass­roots, where jour­nal­ism is being rein­vented. Just as tech­nol­ogy has made com­peti­tors out of CNN and USA Today, so, too has it enabled oth­ers to make […]

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