“Does anyone have a buck I can borrow?” “Sure, I do,” I said, reaching for my wallet. “Don’t do it, man,” Harold interjected. “He’ll ask for a pound of flesh in return.” — Jew jokes are my bread and butter. Generally people know I’m a Jew within the first hour they know me, and they [...] Read more »
Tonight marks Ignite Boulder V, an event so enormously popular that they’ve moved to the Boulder Theater and begun charging for tickets. Despite purchasing my ticket well in advance, I’m not attending in protest to the way in which my presentation was treated. Several weeks ago, when submission and voting began, I was confident I [...] Read more »
Image by Matthew Olyphant. “That fucker,” I muttered under my breath, stuffing the signed credit card slip in with the others and pocketing the $0.43 tip. Mr. Felcher was a regular at BD’s Mongolian Barbecue. He often came in at lunch with his wife, ordering the beer and a bowl special (which got you a [...] Read more »
There’s an old Jewish toast, “Next year in the Holy Land,” or “Next year in Jerusalem.” At this rate, there might not be a next year in the Holy Land, let alone Jerusalem. With attacks in the Gaza Region turning heads around the globe, eliciting protests across the Arab world, and helping 2008 go out [...] Read more »
A duck lands in the Vltava in Prague. For more splashy pictures of the Czech Republic, click here. There’s a lot about religion I dislike: the sectism, the hatred, the jihads, the hypocrisy, the difficulty in changing any of the doctrines that no longer apply, the literal interpretations. The list could go on for eons. [...] Read more »
The gate of Dachau reads, “ARBEIT MACHT FREI.” It means, “work will set you free.” For more pictures of Dachau and Germany, click here. “Not yet. Not yet, Ben,” I tell myself. I can feel the tears welling up. “You’ve still got more to see.” Only 20 minutes ago did I walk through the gate [...] Read more »
The moon was aglow by the time the phone woke me from my napping slumber. After my rude awaking that morning, I had crawled into bed early, worn out like a favorite teddy bear. “Yeah?” I asked, the phone glowing faintly in the dim light of my room. “Dude? Were you sleeping?” “Yeah. Who the [...] Read more »
Why is it that people can’t help but discriminate against us Jews during the holiday season? I went to The Sink for lunch the other day with a couple of friends. Besides getting some of the worst service I’ve ever received, on my way out I was greeted by one of the rudest, most ethnically [...] Read more »
For those of you who have missed, and I know several of you probably have, there are major riots happening in the Eastern World (India, Palestine, Pakistan, Iran, etc) over a series of cartoons depicting Mohammed the Prophet in a Danish newspaper. Michelle Malkin has an interesting analysis of the event that is very pro-freedom [...] Read more »
When did asking questions become a sign of being evil? In the fall of 2004, a “holocaust denier” came to CU to speak. I attended the lecture to hear what he had to say. I was unsure how anyone could claim the holocaust didn’t happen. To me, that’s what a holocaust denier is; someone who [...] Read more »