Total Eclipse

It’s times like these, I almost fall victim to despair. The immediate feeling of injustice, it’s hard to scale into words. The conflict has leaped into a new strategy, and a new war of de-legitimization is being waged against Israel. We are now being forced into circumstances where the only course of action we have [...]

Political Disclaimer: Before diving into deeply contentious subjects, I’d like to precede by stating that I am and always have been a member of the Israeli peace camp. I support the Palestinian’s right to self-determination, within the boundaries of the land acquired by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War. Having said that, It is [...]

For a while now, we’ve been hearing about the crisis of journalism. As David Simon (HBO’s THE WIRE) once put it – Journalists today are expected to do more with less. As Simon has also wisely noted, this crisis in journalism began before the internet, but today, the most pertinent challenge to journalism lies on [...]

So it seems while all eyes on are Gaza, The Israel Central Elections Committee decided to disqualify the two major Arab parties from running in the elections. There’s nothing new to the claims that the Arab parties (the only one left, Hadash, is an Arab-Jewish communist coalition) do not accept Israel as a Jewish state. [...]

In response to a post on Coilhouse concerning the passing of Proposition 8 in California to end gay marriages in the state, I wrote this response, which I thought was too long for anyone to read as a comment, but still worth sharing with the world, somewhere. There truly is a sour taste coming from [...]

The view from Tel-Aviv: I was really nervous all last night. Laying in bed, watching the US Edition of CNN off the intertubes, and frequenting twitter reports from various friends in the states (Hi Corey!) on my iPod. It was about 4:00 past midnight when Ohio went for Obama. That’s when I knew it was [...]

I was arguing with an acquaintance on matters tangential to political philosophy. He was arguing from a rather extreme, radical political position, while I was arguing towards a more moderate, and in my opinion more realistic position. At one point in the debate, I had the urge to just yell at him “But don’t you [...]

In the past I’ve already ranted here about how pissy I get when legislation fails to do the minimum gesture towards a reason-based society. It’s as if we’ve accepted the scientific method as a matter of course for every aspect of our lives except the most important one: How our society should run. Laws are [...]

“You are a total nutcase, completely deranged, delusional, paranoid. Your thought process is all fucked up. Your information train is jammed, man!” – the character of Jeffery Goines, in Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys. A disturbing thought has occurred to me, one which relates to a mess of other thoughts concerning our culture and it’s biases. [...]

I’ve recently noticed a worrying trend. Legislators are, more often than not, idiots. It’s quite possible this was always the case and I just wasn’t fully aware of it, but it’s become increasingly apparent to me that the act of legislation, laying grounds to the principles by which our society functions, is done based on [...]