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Life Goes On.

March 30, 2010

source.  You’ll see where I’m going with this in a minute. It’s so surreal that, in the wake of the hideous, gruesome Metro bombing in Russia, I found out yesterday that I had a new baby cousin, just in time for Passover.  People die, people are born, life goes on.   It’s so crazy to think that when Baby Cousin is 10 years old, I’ll have known him his entire life. Being one of the youngest in our extended family, I’ve ...

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Environmentalism has its roots in millions of violently angry Soviet women

March 11, 2010

What triggered this post was that today on Facebook, I saw a friend who is a mom-to-be discuss the benefits of  cloth diapers in an excruciating wall post that at least three moms responded to enthusiastically.  And seeing people on the Metro with their trendy non-bag shopping totes.   And watching people walk to work with a glow of pride. Here’s what makes me angry.  My mom and pretty much all the women of her generation going back to Cyrill and ...

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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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Why do you have to discover Adriano Celentano, cruel Internet?

February 16, 2010

I am writing this post because I have been Wronged by the Internet. You know how there are sometimes memes that dig up “a really cool video from 1963?”  and then everyone starts passing it around and acting like it’s the greatest thing since LOLcats?  Well, someone managed to dig up Prisencolinensinainciusol by Adriano Celentano and it’s been making its way around Teh Webz and all these people are like, “Oh my gosh, what a cool concept!  This guy is ...

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Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit

February 1, 2010

When I was in the third grade, I won a contest or got the best grade in some class-I don’t remember exactly.  All the other kids that won had gotten something like gift certificates to Pizza Hut or stickers, so I was excited to get the same.  Unfortunately, all I got was a book called Words of Stone with the words “Happy Holidays! from Mrs. Moyer,” my third grade teacher,written there. I was really disappointed because  the book had no ...

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