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Led Zeppelin

December 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Books, Culture, Entertainment, Music

The New York Times reviews a new biog­ra­phy of the best rock band in his­tory. But the eter­nal ques­tion remains: Which is their best album, “II” or “Phys­i­cal Graf­fiti“? (“IV” is dis­qual­i­fied because most of the songs are over­played far too much.)… Continue reading

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Year One

December 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Bible, Christianity, Culture, Entertainment, Humor, Israel, Judaism, Language, Personal, Religion, The Middle East, Torah

BELLEVILLE, Illi­nois — So while I was vis­it­ing my fam­ily over Thanks­giv­ing, we watched the movie “Year One” star­ring Jack Black. It was a comedic retelling of the bib­li­cal events from Cre­ation to the destruc­tion of Sodom and Gemorah from the point of view of non-Hebrew pro­tag­o­nists. For any­one who saw the movie and speaks […]

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Holiday Season

December 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Advertising, Business, Christianity, Culture, Entertainment, Humor, Marketing, Media, Religion, Technology, War on Terror

Fans of the tele­vi­sion show “24” should like this par­ody involv­ing Santa Claus. I’m sure it’s a viral video for some­thing, but it sure is funny… Continue reading

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TV">Reality TV

December 24th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Business, Culture, Entertainment, Media

James Wal­cott writes in Van­ity Fair that the influ­ence of real­ity tele­vi­sion “has not only ruined net­work val­ues, destroyed the clas­sic doc­u­men­tary, and debased the art of bad act­ing, but also fomented class war­fare, anti­so­cial behav­ior, and mur­der.” What say you?… Continue reading

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Being an Early-Riser

December 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Boston, Business, Education, Entertainment, Health, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Marketing, Massachusetts, Personal, Religion, Science, Sports

JERUSALEM — Ever since I can remem­ber, I have always wanted to stay up late and sleep in late. It was not out of a desire to slack-off and party (even in high school) — it was merely because I always had so much to do. I would stay up late work­ing on home­work for […]

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My Favorite Song of the Moment

December 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Culture, Entertainment, Music, Personal

This cover of Queen’s “Some­body to Love” from the film “Happy Feet” is by Amer­i­can actress Brit­tany Mur­phy, who passed away yes­ter­day at the age of 32. My first mem­ory of her is in “Clue­less.”… Continue reading

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Japanese Culture

December 17th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Business, China, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Entertainment, Europe, Feminism, Health, Japan, Law, Media, Politics, Sex, Technology, War

RISHON LEZION, Israel — Roger Cohen makes some depress­ing obser­va­tions on the land of the ris­ing set­ting sun: …I’m not aware of any other nation where fan­tasy, escapism and the cyber world have fused with such inten­sity. Indeed, there’s a Japan­ese word, otaku, denot­ing a whole uni­verse of mono­ma­ni­a­cal geek-like obses­sion, whether with an electronic […]

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Daily Reading

December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Entertainment, Finance, Hizbollah, Israel, Politics, Religion, Science, Technology, The Middle East, War, War on Terror

The burst of the agri­cul­ture bub­ble in the 1980s might pro­vide some eco­nomic lessons for today. A com­puter model could pre­dict events in the world’s hot-spots. Pak­istan might implode. Han Solo and game the­ory in “Star Wars.” New Sci­en­tist mag­a­zine “proves” that dogs are bet­ter than cats — but only by a hair… Continue reading

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