Last night I wrote about the accusation that the Israelis “double tap” Palestinian rescue workers, meaning the IDF attacks a target, waits until first responders show up, and then kill them. The night before, I wrote about the phony accusation that an Israeli army officer gave a drink of water to an elderly Palestinian woman…
Cancer of the mind
October 21, 2014
There’s a cancer of the mind. It’s called “fantasy.” Like cheesecake, fantasy is great in controlled dosages. My brother Paul and my sister Carrie once made a cheesecake with strawberry topping, split it in half, and finished it down to the last crumb of graham-cracker crust. Neither of them ate cheesecake again for over twenty…
Mel Gibson made his bed
March 13, 2014
I just read an incredibly long piece by Allison Hope Weiner, titled “A Journalist’s Plea On 10th Anniversary Of ‘The Passion Of The Christ’: Hollywood, Take Mel Gibson Off Your Blacklist.” Ms. Weiner says that she misjudged Gibson, that he isn’t an anti-Semite, and she now considers him a friend. Right off the bat, I’ll…
The perfect end to 2013
December 9, 2013
Most people would tell me to not link to this, but Tila Tequila has come out as a Nazi sympathizer and supporter of Hitler. It’s the perfect end to 2013. What a ridiculous, awful, exhausting, painful, depressing circus of failure, lying, and dashed hopes this year was. So 2013 deserves as its denouement Tila Tequila…
The Germans were the real victims
November 4, 2013
I got a message in response to my post “Bigotry can cost you a lot,” about how a German postcard dealer refused to sell to me because I’m an American. As a result, he screwed himself out of hundreds of Euro. Regarding the Germans, most of the ones that I know who are over 50…