Nov 3, 2020The Media Owns a Part of Whatever Chaos this Week Brings“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” — H.L Mencken Am I the only one who thinks it’s weird that we’ve kind of all just accepted that…Elections9 min readElections9 min read
Jun 5, 2020You Can’t Be Right All the Time. But You Can Be an Asshole all the Time.It’s time people learned, that the less you invest of your time, energy, ego, and credibility in being right all the time, the less of an asshole you’ll look like when you struggle to explain why you’re actually right, no matter what. Nobody can be right all the time. We…Trump4 min readTrump4 min read
Jan 28, 2020The Deal of the Century: Let’s Give Stupid a ChanceIt seems unlikely that the Trump peace plan, the “deal of the century” will come to much. It doesn’t take a White House insider, a former government official, or someone with a book to sell to tell you that. This isn’t because it’s a good plan or a bad one…Israel3 min readIsrael3 min read
Dec 12, 2019Dear Brits: Please Don’t be a Bunch of Twats TodayWe really shouldn’t need to have this conversation on why you shouldn’t elect Jeremy Corbyn as your next Prime Minister. I’ll start by saying that I am not the most well versed in British Politics. The closest I come to keeping up is laughing at ridiculous Guardian op-eds and watching…Labour Party3 min readLabour Party3 min read
Oct 23, 2019What’s The Difference Between Insanity and Israeli Politics?Everybody knows that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. So far two elections have cost the Israeli public half a billion shekels in public funds and 5 billion in lost productivity and the only thing they’ve produced is speculations…Israel3 min readIsrael3 min read
Sep 17, 2019The 2019 Cynics Guide to the Elections II: The Benjamins Strike BackSo here we are, It’s election day. Again. I don’t think it took much to be a cynic about this second electoral go-around; not much has changed, neither the candidates, their positions, nor their promises never to sit with someone in whatever coalition might get slapped together. …Israel3 min readIsrael3 min read
Apr 9, 2019The Cynics Guide to Israeli Elections: 2019 All-About-the-Benjamins EditionAh, spring is in the air, the beaches are starting to fill up, a few stray rockets hit Tel Aviv, and your phone rings about 80 times a day with texts and calls from politicians. The next war? Nope! It’s elections time! Today we go to the beach because it’s…Israel9 min readIsrael9 min read
Jan 8, 2019With Lara Kollab, We Didn’t Even TryA missed opportunity for dialogue Last year in March DC Councilman Trayon White Sr. said in a video during a snowstorm: “Man, it just started snowing out of nowhere this morning, man. Y’all better pay attention to this climate control, man, this climate manipulation,” he says. “And D.C. keep talking…Israel4 min readIsrael4 min read
Dec 11, 2018There Are Jews That You Can Kill and Jews That You Can’tThis week a Palestinian terrorist opened fire, on civilians near the town of Ofra, in the West Bank, wounding 6 including a pregnant mother. The infant, only in its 30th week, has been delivered and is fighting for its life along with the mother and the other victims. The international…Israel5 min readIsrael5 min read
Oct 16, 2018Elizabeth Warren Takes DNA Test, finds out She’s a Republican.Yesterday Elizabeth Warren announced the results of a DNA test that said she was quite possibly MORE white than the average American. …Politics3 min readPolitics3 min read
