Ah, springtime... A time for flowers to bloom and trees to bud, a time to resume outdoor activities long missed and pined for in the dead cold of winter, a time for a laughter, a time for love, and - oh yes - a time for prom. Prom: that lovely little social event planned each year for our junior and senior class by the junior board (who has ( Read more... )

So of all the decisions I've made this year, my senior year of high school, the decision to take an EMT class is one of my best and also one of my stupidest. On the positive end, I get to be exposed to a college course (not just a "college level" course) before I leave for college, I gain valuable information and skills that can generally improve ( Read more... )

So I've decided I'm going to try again with the online journal thing. The last one I had was just a collection of my rantings and I don't expect this one to be much more. I might actually put stuff about my life on this one though, because ranting online just isn't as effective and these days I tend to deal with my outrage a little better, so I don ( Read more... )

The invention of instant messanging has been both a great accomplishment and great downfall to our society. On one side we have instant communication without the trouble of filling out the title and stuff of an email. On the other hand its promoted bad grammar, spelling and dipshitness worldwide. The worst addition to the instant message craze: the ( Read more... )

The thing about history is that the people who write history tend to gloss over some of the less glamorous, uninspirational details that may be viewed as improper. For example, while historians verify that Rome wasn't built in a day, they neglect to reveal that Rome could have been finished in 12 hours if the Romans hadn't been so busy having ( Read more... )

It seems odd that I, as a Jew, am so enveloped in this question, but it plagues me. The pope, as a figure though not necessarily as a person, is hilarious. Simply the inclusion of the world "pope" to any joke or anecdote immediately yields laughter ( Read more... )

I'm hardly what one could call a "Jew for Jesus." I don't walk around with a tallis draped over my shoulders and a crucifix necklance around my neck. I don't walk to schul with a copy of the Talmud in one hand and the New Testament in the other. I don't quite even see how such a hypocrisy was even spawned, though the "Jews for Jesus" are a somewhat ( Read more... )