Meshugene Men

SNL McCain - Obama Debate

Pulp Muppets

NY Governor David Paterson

on the Hamptons Eruv issue...

Paterson expressed his support for the eruv, saying he hoped "we can bring tolerance and understanding and compassion" to the Hamptons.

Article in the NY Times on the Eruv in the Hamptons...

W: The Movie

Oliver Stone's latest movie.

Stone is famous for courting controversy with dramas like JFK (1991) and Nixon (1995). But with W, the 61-year-old filmmaker isn't merely courting it — he's grabbing controversy by the lapels and giving it a big wet smacker. For the first time, he's turning his cameras not just on a living president but on one who'll still be knocking around the White House when the movie premieres late this year. As if that weren't provocative enough, Stone could end up releasing the film as early as October, at the height of a presidential campaign in which one of the major issues will undoubtedly be the legacy of the guy on the screen. The movie has become a lightning rod before Stone has shot a single frame. If that bootlegged script is any indication, the film will feature such flag-waving moments as the Commander-in-Chief nearly choking to death on a pretzel while watching football on TV and a flashback of him singing the ''Whiffenpoof'' song as a frat pledge at Yale, not to mention scenes in which he refers to his advisers by dorky nicknames — ''Guru'' for Condoleezza Rice, ''Turdblossom'' for Karl Rove, ''Balloon Foot'' for Colin Powell — while discussing plans for the invasion of Iraq with the coolness of a late-night poker game. (EW)

escape from the holy shtetl

from New York Magazine...

"Gitty Grunwald fled the pious world of her mother to return to the secular city of her grandparents. There’s only one problem: The Satmars kept her daughter. A family saga of four generations of American Jews"

Asian Subway System

Colbert's Commencement Speech at Princeton

american idol

david archuleta, who i predicted will win it all over 3 months ago (before the Top 24 were selected) will face off against david cook tonight in the final round.

i still think archuleta will win due to the teeny bopper vote, but cook will end up with the better music career, much like chris daughtry, who finished fourth (behind the eventual winner taylor hicks).

#$@ in the city

(AP)
JERUSALEM - There's going to be "sex," but not in two Israeli cities.

Forum Films, the Israeli distributor of the soon-to-be-released "Sex and the City" movie, won't be hanging advertising posters and billboards in Jerusalem and Petah Tikva because officials there don't want the word "sex" on display, said company spokesman Arye Barak.

Both cities have large religious populations.

Municipal officials there asked to have the word "sex" removed from the posters, Barak said. "We told them, the way you don't remove the word "Coca" from "Coca-Cola" and just leave "Cola," we can't do it in this case," he said. "It's ludicrous."

Ads for the movie, based on the popular TV series, were to go up elsewhere in Israel on Tuesday night, said an official at Maximedia, the Israeli company that is handling outdoor advertising for the movie.

no word yet if Bnei Brak will be included in the ban...

aka GO

http://www.akapella.net/

einstein on religion...

(AP)

A letter being auctioned in London this week adds more fuel to the long-simmering debate about the Nobel Prize-winning physicist's religious views. In the note, written the year before his death, Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the product of human weakness and the Bible as "pretty childish."

In the letter, Einstein said that "the word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish."

"For me," he added, "the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions."

Addressing the idea that the Jews are God's chosen people, Einstein wrote that "the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them."

Born to a Jewish family in Germany in 1879, Einstein said he went through a devout phase as a child before beginning to question conventional religion at the age of 12.
In later life, he expressed a sense of wonder at the universe and its mysteries — what he called a "cosmic religious feeling" — and famously said: "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

But he also said: "I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws."

the full article...

Hamas endorses Obama...

(NY Daily News)

While maintaining an ironclad commitment to Israel's security, Barack Obama says he understood why a top Hamas adviser voiced support for his presidential bid.

"It's conceivable that there are those in the Arab world who say to themselves, 'This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein and appears more worldly and has called for talks with people, and so he's not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush,'" Obama said in an interview with The Atlantic.

"That's a perfectly legitimate perception as long as they're not confused about my unyielding support for Israel's security," Obama said.

Jewish (Israeli) Hollywood

Kyle Smith, movie critic for the NY Post, pleads for Hollywood to bring back the Jewish heros...



Some Jewish "Hero" movies mentioned:

• Munich
• Exodus
• Victory at Entebbe
• Cast a Giant Shadow

Some Jewish movie ideas...

• 6 Day War
• The Mossad
• Eli Cohen
• Chana Senezsh

the heat must be getting to him

is dwayne wade involved romantically with star jones?

and if so, ewwwwwwwwwwwwww.

(foxsports...)

"We are friends. That's all," said Wade, who is married to his high school sweetheart and has two sons.

"Good friends?" Barkley interjected.

"Naw, Chuck," Wade said with a smile.

Some hilarity ensued. Barkley broke through the commotion to say, "I like Star. She's a cougar."

"What's a cougar?" Smith asked, not so innocently, a perfect lob to Barkley.

Sir Charles promptly slammed the ball home: "Preying on a young Dwyane Wade."

redneck golf

ex-PGA champ and redneck, John Daly plays golf topless, barefoot, smoking and drinking...

paula abdul...

... is nuts.

with the 6th pick in the 2008 NFL Draft...

how will the NY Jets mess this one up?

Brando at The Seder

The following is a story about Marlon Brando and his love for Jews, Zionism, and Matzah.

"You might remember him as Don Vito Corleone, Stanley Kowalski or the eerie Col. Walter E. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, but I remember Marlon Brando as a mensch and a personal friend of the Jewish people when they needed it most..." read more


(LA Jewish Journal)

macaroons: are they tearing America apart?

trouble-making, communist, and anti-American blogger, DovBear supports this French "cuisine"...

in other news, DovBear kicks puppies and beats children.