“Well, yeah. It just makes sense,” I admitted. “Ok, follow-up question,” warned Matt. “Shoot.” “Would you say that’s sexist?” My immediate inclination was to say no, but even after discussing the topic for nearly an hour, there was still a shred of doubt in the back of my mind. It ate at me, gnawing on [...] 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 »
One thing I love about Boulder is that it’s prime ogling territory. In Boulder, the ratio of beautiful and healthy people is incredible. If I’m not getting my facts wrong, Boulder remains the skinniest city in the skinniest county in the skinniest state in the country. And while often that means the women wandering around [...] 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 »
Last night a friend of mine tried to use the word “lecanoscopy” (a derivative of lecanomancy) and accidentally used lycanoscopy. Lecanoscopy is the act of reading the future in water. Lycanoscopy, if it existed, would be the act of looking for a tumor by shoving a werewolf up your ass. Mohammed Update The other day, [...] 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 »
To put it simply, I have a strong distaste for my mom’s parents. My grandmother is an ignorant bigot and my grandfather is a forceful and stubborn republican. I’ve been instructed not to discuss anything controversial in their presence. Despite this, I sometimes have the urge to come out of the closet to them, despite [...] Read more »
Sometimes I hate myself simply because I can’t do what I truly want to. The other day, on my way to school, I passed a black man. He wasn’t scary looking or even as big as me. He wasn’t threatening or mean. Still, in the back of my mind I wondered if I should say [...] Read more »