Mishegaas
- The Israeli police have recommended indicting president Moshe Katsav for rape.
- What would Jesus blog? He wouldn’t! At least, according to The Restored Church of God.
- Nevada clergy are supporting an initiative to decriminalize marijuana.
- A late Amazonian rabbi has become a mystical figure among the local Christian populace.
- A commercial bank in B’nei B’rak has opened a “women only” teller window so that hareidi men and women won’t have to stand on line with eachother.
- Air America radio goes belly up.
- After 33 years on the Lower East Side, CBGB’s has held its final show.
- London’s East End is beginning to experience something of an LES-like Jewish revival.
- David Sirota demonstrates how “Tom Friedmanism” (aka wreckless freetraderism) inhibits human rights reforms.
- Stan Goff, a retired veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces, warns readers of the militarization of the American public and the rise of American fascism.
- Snarky? Check. Obnoxious? Check. Offensive? Check. Scientifically sound and threatening to our preconceived notions of G-d and religion? Check. Meet Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion.
- Perhaps Dawkins should read the Athiests of Silicon Valley’s “Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence.”
- And finally: “That’s Upper East Side bas mitzvah money!”
“Scientifically sound and threatening to our preconceived notions of G-d and religion?”
Ha. This guys intollerance (and closed mindedness) trumps most Chassidim I’ve met. The fact that this facist sees all brain activity as nothing more than neuron’s firing speaks volumes. As well known analyst once said: “If dreams are nothing more than random neuron’s firing…try tellling your wife that the wet dream you had about your neighbors wife is nothing but accidental brain activity”.
CBGBs is on the Bowery, which is not the LES. It’s the E. Village if anything.
It’ s not accurate to equate Chapter 11 with “going belly up”. If that were so – there would be no airlines left other than Southwest these days…
You are confusing Chapter 11 with Chapter 7 (which WOULD mean “going belly up”….
here’s a headline for you mobius: more trouble w/AIPAC: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1549069,00.html
Shtreimel,
Why does his chemical explanation make Dawkins a fascist?
I can understand why his views are painfully threatening to the mindset of a ba’al teshuvah, but to me they make perrrrrrrfect sense.
There’s no reason to cart out epithets like “fascist” just because he makes you nervous. (Unless that nervousness is just brain neurons firing randomly.)