How Do You Jew

Category: Commentary

  • Random thoughts

    I ought to be blogging more. edited to add: and I ought to fix/edit my sidebar contents. I had a productive day at work today, with a “third time’s a charm” situation regarding videotaping a presentation given by our esteemed young employer relations specialist and a rep from SDG&E. Then the day was made more…

  • Why I’m never buying bottled water again, and why you shouldn’t either

    Since I’ve been following No Impact Man for a while, I was primed for this, but there were still some severely sobering facts in this that managed to stun me. Take some time to read and react to The Truth About Bottled Water. Highlights: Except for this: Bottled water is often simply an indulgence, and…

  • Two days in a row? Well, yeah.

    Scott Adams is at it again, making a lucid, cogent point about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Are all cartoonists this bright? If so, why aren’t THEY running the country?

  • Dilbert expounds on the Middle East.

    Well, OK, it’s Scott Adams, the guy who writes Dilbert, but it’s kinda sad that his commentary is far more sound (and a whole lot more succinct) than most of what the mainstream media (or even the fringe) provide.

  • Having an impact.

    I’ve been following No-Impact Man for a couple of months, and it’s made me think a lot about my own impact on the planet. I do more than many people, but not as much as I could; I’m working on it, one day at a time. Then today, in a comment on a post at…

  • 2007 is actually 1984.

    Newspeak, courtesy of Reuters. (Thank you, Andrew Sullivan.)

  • Freedom of speech in real life.

    I had never heard of Mike Daisey before today, but I am a big fan now. Make sure you read the followup, too.

  • Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes all the way down to the soul.

    I’d like to consider Aaryn a good friend. She’s at least a permanent tenant in my blogroll, which is something, right? Anyway, she’s a brave, beautiful woman who consistently and repeatedly exposes herself to scrotu scrutiny in her blog and in a column in a local paper. In response to her latest, she received some…

  • Me? Pedantic?! No!

    I expect better from an institution like Time Magazine (well, time.com in this case): In their photoessay on the life, reign, and death of Saddam Hussein, they goof in the caption for photo 5. Note the reference to the persons sitting “to Saddam’s left” and “to his right”: This isn’t as egregious as the fauxtography…

  • True to myself.

    I’ve been conflicted about limiting or editing the content of this blog, thinking from the beginning about “keeping politics/conflict/etc.” out of it, but I recognize that would be ultimately disingenuous. What jarred me out of the illusion that I could/should keep my opinions about some things to myself was this quote, from last Sunday’s AWAD:…