February 2010

Purim Friday Links

February 25, 2010

From ze blogz I just discovered the amazing trainwreck that is STFU Parents. Ashton Kutcher is in Russia?  by Karyn Nisha says that kids these days don’t read any more.  Like, at all. Grace talks about how the sports our parents made us do when we were small are actually useful. Hm. And Maya has a beautiful post about how Israelis just don’t really care about the Middle East conflict From ze Webz Afghan’s Next Top Model shalom!  Showcase of ...

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My Friend Jen, the Human Bandaid

February 25, 2010

This is Jen. We’ve been friends  since sixth grade.  Now she’s all grown up and doing a master’s program in public health from Boston University and on internship. In Zambia. She has a crazy amount of testicular fortitude that I could never dig up, and an even larger amount of compassion and consideration for people that don’t even have the option of fighting over which kind of health care system they’d like their country to have, because their country  has ...

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Russian Tweetup: February 28

February 24, 2010

My online friend Karyn organizes D.C. language meetups on a frequent basis, and now she is organizing a Russian-language chat on Twitter, so you should come, if you’re into learning Russian. So it’s settled, I’m hosting my first Russian Tweetup on February 28th at 1:00pm EST/GMT-5 (1:00pm = 21:00 Moscow time) and you’re invited! (Click here if you need help with time zones.) Here’s the deal, Everyone will log onto Twitter on the day and time specified above. Simply tweet ...

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Why the American Ice Dancing Teams Need to get Tough

February 22, 2010

On Friday night, I was watching the American ice dancing teams get murdered by the Russians , who for some reason, have been mangling  every sport.  It’s like they want Putin to murder them when they get back.  Although, now they are in third place.  And, although they’ve been losing, they are scary, scary people and performed insanely well in the compulsory routine.  Specifically, Domnina-Shabalin scare the crap out of me with their ferocity (also, racism): If you look at ...

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Nutellaaaaaaa

February 19, 2010

Remember when I was trying to lose weight through the power of economics?  Well, I’m having another go at it.  So far…success!  Almost.    Also, remember how I used to have links on Fridays and then I stopped and you were probably like, what the heck?  Well, I got lazy.  So I’m going to try to bring them back. At least for this week.   After the trauma comic. Blog posts that were really cool this week: 1. Neil posts moving ...

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