August 2009

Putin’s Pec Pics: HOTT

August 6, 2009

As you may know, Russian Dominant Overlord President Vladimir Putin(or as I like to call him, Koschey Bessmertniy,) recently went on vacation to Siberia.  Because, I guess, cheap airfare to Istanbul wasn’t available or something. While in Siberia, Putin participated in all sorts of manly activities, including horseback riding, swimming pretending to be Chuck Norris: Seriously.  Doesn’t he look like Koschey to you? My favorite picture comes courtesy of Nathan of Registan, who might have been experimenting with hallucinogenic elements ...

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The Victorian Error: Birthday

August 5, 2009

Note: The Victorian Era was a long period of prosperity for the British people, a time of cultural revival, and of great advances in engineering and fashion.  The Victorian Error is  column where I bitch about my life experiences. Today is my birthday.  I’ve decided to celebrate by remembering  birthdays past, specifically my 20th birthday three years ago. This particular birthday took place in Israel, when I was interning for Bank HaPoalim, the biggest bank in Israel and also the ...

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Marriage regulations in Israel and the world

August 3, 2009

Yesterday, I posted on DovBear about how Jews from the Former Soviet Union often cannot get married in Israel because they are not verified to be Jewish by the Rabbinate, which has a monopoly on Jewish marriage in Israel. The post got over 300 comments, which is not unusual for DovBear’s community of religious and non-religious Jewish readers alike, but it really is a hot button issue. Here’s a little bit of background from my post: Anyone Jewish (again, how ...

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Author Interview: Karan Mahajan (Family Planning)

August 2, 2009

It’s rare to find a really good satire that involves flyovers AND Bryan Adams these days. It’s even harder if, before reading that satire, you have no idea what a flyover actually is.  That’s why I was so exited to find Family Planning, the first novel by witty and insightful flyover expert and author Karan Mahajan. Family Planning is a satire of the Indian bureaucratic political system, large middle-class Indian families, wannabe-rocker teenagers, and soap-opera-watching Indian housewives.  It also tackles ...

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