Goodness gracious! How did the Obama people know I was a Yid?
I got an email from the Obama campaign wishing me a happy New Year. Aw, thanks!
They included this little video that lets the Jews know Barack is on their side. Yikes. This plus Sarah Silverman’s attempt to grab some straggling Jewish voters might really [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Oy Vey 2.0!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Jewish ppl, Juden, obama, vote, Yids on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Oy Vey.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Few Good Men, Buchenwald, Dowd, Israel, New Year, Olmert, Rosh Hashanah, Weimar on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m back. Kind of.
I am writing from my friend’s computer because mine is at the computer doktor. Enough about that.
So I went to Weimar. Saw Goethes Haus and many status of Goethe and Schiller (Hi, Ken/Lee!). Fifteen minutes up a winding road (built by forced labor during National Socialism), was Buchenwald concentration camp. It was [...]
The bombs fell lightly here…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Berlin, John Updike, memorials, Munich, Weimar on September 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Tomorrow at about 6:00am I leave for a trip to Weimar. Instead of capitalizing on sleep (only about 4 hours before the day starts!), I am up reading. I stupidly didn’t bring many books, although I do have an anthology of John Updike poetry that I bought this summer. There is a poem called Munich [...]
Why I Love Berlin (other than the creamy milk)
Posted in Culture, tagged Berlin, getranke, mineralwasser, seltzer on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you ask for a glass of water at a restaurant, 9 times out of 10 they will pour you mineralwasser (also know as SELTZER). Anywhere you can buy still water, you can buy carbonated water!
Forget the land of Milk and Honey, this is the land of Milk and Seltzer and this is the land [...]
I’m a Blogette, too!
Posted in Culture, Politics, tagged blogging, Bristol Palin, Cindy McCain, Meghan McCain, music on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I could easily spend an entire day going through all the entries on Meghan McCain’s blog. Back in June she wrote about how she registered Independent when she was 18, but as a symbol of support to her father, she re-registered as a Republican (yikes). I tried desperately to get some clue into how she [...]
End this war.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anti-war, big fat ugly America, demonstration, November 4th, shame on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I saw this poster for an anti-war demonstration at the entrance to the U-bahn:
This is a loose translation of what you’ll find on the website:
“With seven years of continuous war in Afghanistan, none of the targets are achieved. In the opposite: Force, terror and drug trade shape the everyday life. In most regions of Afghanistan [...]
