Yom Ha'atzmaut is Israeli indendance day. It is not a time to celebrate however - it is a time to mourn. 56 years ago a conglomerate of nations, after the end of WWII, declared that the previously British controlled area of the middle east known as Palestine, would be called Israel. In many ways it was the culmination of nearly 3000 years of ( Read more... )

Yesterday...I went to a prom. For those of you that don't know, prom is where a bunch of high-school kids rent tuxedos and buy expensive dresses and they spend a night pretending to be, well, I guess...classy? But most of the time, it ends up not working extremely well - and they end up looking like...umm...kids...in tuxedos...and expensive ( Read more... )

For the past...oh...5 years, I've been arguing with people over whether it is "right" or not to "legalize" gay marriage. I'm tired of it, and frustrated becuase of these two reasons: 1) To argue gay marriage with a fundamentalist Christian is to argue to a brick wall. They don't want to "argue" so much as they want to personally attack you and ( Read more... )

You know, right now it's one of those times where you swear you're done with something, and all of a sudden it comes back to bite you in the ass. Whether it's meeting that kid you always used to beat up in school, and finding out he's now 6'2", being charged for the murder you committed 20 years ago, or being charged by the guy who was 12 but you ( Read more... )