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I'm Sure Claude Would Be Flattered And All, But $80 Million Is Almost What Afghanistan Made On Its Heroin Tax

  • Some anonymous collector just bought this Monet for $80.4 million from the kids of some famous collectors from Columbus, Indiana. No really, I thought it was a mistake too, but there really is a Columbus, Indiana, and before they died the couple who amassed this insane art collection were like the hipster royal family there. [NYT]
  • A Druze border policeman killed himself in Israel while Sarkozy was watching and the family is asking that his name not be released, but like, I kind of think it's a little late for that. [Haaretz]
  • I'm not saying we should adopt all Afghanistan's policies but $100 million just from taxing shit most countries pay hundreds of billions criminalizing sounds pretty tempting…[BBC
  • Obama is polling creepily well right now, which makes me nervous, but can you blame the voters when McCain is out there straight-talking about how his offshore drilling ideas are kind of cheap psychological tricks? [MSNBC]
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6:30 PM on Tue Jun 24 2008
By Moe
2,098 views, 27 comments

Latest by Lizzles: Gee, lots of small town Indiana hating going on here at Jezebel lately! I feel ostracized. more »

very bad men

What's This Guy Doing On The Blog? Just Fucking Up The World, Folks!

One of the cool things about writing for a "women's" blog that actively rails against the ghettoization of women's voices in the "women's" media is that it gives me the only excuse I can really think of to draw your attention to the work of a woman journalist who has succeeded in resisting said ghettoization, the New Yorker's Connie Bruck, who this week profiled Sheldon Adelson. Adelson, a right-wing Zionist ideologue, is the owner of a slew of casinos in Las Vegas and Macau and plows billions of dollars of the world's blackjack losses into supporting President Bush; smears the reputations of rival casino magnates and Israeli politicians who favor any sort of peace-type solution with Palestine, makes an effort to get American officials to relax any loyalty they might have to the concept of "human rights" — not tough in the case of Tom DeLay — so as to nab a highly-coveted casino license in Macau/cause more Chinese to lose more money, and insinuates himself into every level of Israeli politics and discourse and sues the shit out of anyone who gets in his way. More »

6:00 PM on Tue Jun 24 2008
By Moe
2,896 views, 58 comments

Latest by brazen-she-wahhabi: @BeckySharper: You have a point. It really does depend on how you look at it. That being said, one whacked-out cousin who funnels all his inherited tribal money to terrorist organizations OR royals putting on theatrics of "concern for Islam" more »

crappy hour

World Mourns Tim Russert, Oil Prices

It was a bittersweet Father's Day, what with the untimely death of Tim Russert, who always reminded me of my own dad, who incidentally attended the War College, where one John McCain penned a thesis in 1974 that was just unearthed and scrutinized by the New York Times to remind us how this rabid ideologue once had some interesting ideas, if the tendency to mess with the facts, and in that vein Barack Obama told black men of the world to stop watching SportsCenter since the games are all fixed anyway, and the Saudis agreed to do a little more to ease mass starvation and global chaos and George Bush promised he would get that Bin Laden guy for finally. But if seven years of waterboarding and sham trials and upending the justice department didn't do it, what will??? That and Condi in Israel with me and Megan and my hangover after the jump. More »

10:00 AM on Mon Jun 16 2008
By Moe
2,822 views, 133 comments

Latest by Rooo sez BISH PLZ: @ceejeemcbeegee: Robert Townsend. And the Fresh Prince of Bel Air's uncle. *smirk* more »

Israeli photographer Rachel Papo has a book coming out, featuring her series on female soldiers called Serial No. 3817131. Papo was in the Israeli Air Force in the late 80s, and, according to a blurb on her publisher's website, her photos reveal "these young girls caught in transient moments of self-reflection and uncertainty, as if stuck in a state of contradiction. Rather than portraying the soldier as heroic, confident, or proud, Papo’s photographs reveal the soldier and the teenage girl in constant negotiation, caught between two extremes: a soldier who lives on an army base surrounded by hundreds just like her, but underneath her uniform, there is an individual who wishes to be noticed." Somehow, these women manage to explore their individuality without taking their clothes off, unlike the Israeli soldiers featured in Maxim this month. [Rachel Papo Official Site, Powerhouse Books via Jewcy]

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news roundup

President Bullshit

  • George W. Bush is in Israel right now where he equated Obama with Hitler over his suggestion that he meet with Ahmadinejad. I guess in Israel they have to smile when he talks but Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik doesn't look like her heart is in it. [Wash Post]
  • Joe Biden and most Democrats not named Joseph Lieberman rejected and denounced Bush's "bullshit"/"malarkey." [Politico]
  • Oh wait, but the Bushes were actually great friends with the Nazis. So maybe he meant the Hitler thing as a compliment? [Guardian]
  • (Dear Jews: Just remember, no one forgets what they learned at summer camp!)
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6:30 PM on Thu May 15 2008
By Moe
2,611 views, 47 comments

Latest by joellevand: @flackette is frustrated & @misapostrophe: this is not the first time he's done it. GWB invokes Godwin's Law, loses. more »

crappy hour

Your Jewish Mom Is Going To Have A Crush On Obama

Life, an esteemed Glamocracy editor said to me today, "is a suicidal act. It is just a more masochistic suicide than average." What differentiates us, then, is nothing but the barely visible variations of degree to which we flatter ourselves into thinking we are the navigators of that masochism, when really our parents are the only ones who can do that. So! Barack Obama's mom was smart enough to follow spent the summer after their years in Muslimstan with a stint a Jew-y summer camp! Barry read Philip Roth and the Talmud and learned to love Israel in theory. (The "in rationalist political expediency" love came later.) Oh yeah, and tonight Hillary Clinton is about to win a pointless landslide in West Virginia. And the rest of the world...well, it's trapped under the rubble of thirty seismic jolts or newly released from the Kafkaesque numerical metaphor that is the state of being a 20th hijacker, but whatevs. We tell ourselves stories in order to assist our own suicides as they say after the jump! More »

10:00 AM on Tue May 13 2008
By Moe
4,113 views, 130 comments

Latest by Cthulhah Bankhead: My Jewish mom already has a crush on Obama. I mean, since Kucinich isn't running. more »

news roundup

The "And You Thought Yesterday Was Bad" Edition

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6:30 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By mcarpentier
2,823 views, 97 comments

Latest by n/a: Ugh, that euphoria thing made me wince on the train this morning. Some people in this world... more »

Fertile Crescents You'd think that the occasion of Israel's 60th birthday would be enough to boost tourism, but you'd be wrong. In fact, the little country that could has taken to less-traditional means to raise awareness about how vacation-worthy it is: Participating in a sexy spread in American Maxim featuring women currently serving in the Israeli military. Women! Guns! Bikinis! (Is this why lobbyist groups are harping on Victoria's Secret model Bar Rafaeli to come back and fulfill her military service already?) Click on the picture to view a video about the story. [Reason]

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news roundup

The Obama Attack Ad Too "Extreme" For John McCain!

  • "They're not listening to me because they're out of touch with reality and the Republican Party. We are the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan and this kind of campaigning is unacceptable. I've done everything that I can to repudiate and to see that this kind of campaigning does not continue." That's the seventysomething presumptive nominee for the Republican presidential candidate, who may just be sufficiently out of touch with the party of Strom Thurmond, Tom DeLay and Dick Cheney to win the election, on the not-so-subtle Obama attack ad you can watch after the jump. [Reuters]
  • And you fucking know what? We'll be bombing Iran and the hedge funds will have figured out how to directly short-sell human life but at least we will have a president who wants to put an end to this shit. [WSJ]
  • Here's an inspiring story for those of you who have ever been fired and worry you'll never get another job in this economy (what with consumer confidence at a 26-year-low) because you have a criminal record and/or lost your last company $7 billion or something like that: Jerome Kerviel got a job! [WSJ]
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6:40 PM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By Moe
2,871 views, 21 comments

Latest by Gin*: that ad is ridiculous, lol. I'm with Phonte on Obama (yay, blogs!) more »

crappy hour

PA. Kids Punished For Choosing Obama Over Nothingness

Aw, look at the cute boys from Scranton who got suspended for cutting class to see Obama! They missed a quiz on The Stranger. "Existentialism is dead," one said. If only we could say the same for killing the Arabs, kids! So yeah, we really, really wanted to play hooky today. It's hot in my house and most of the "news" today consists of different ways of saying "Barack Obama is fucked and can't win and has alienated every typical white person he has ever encountered blah blah, blah blah and oh yeah Eliot Spitzer fucks whores; stop me before I kill my laptop without remorse etc." So yeah, Megan and I decided to talk instead about Syria and North Korea and all the other places we could totally obliterate, plus who bought the securities backed by mortgages in Gaza, but we don't really find any answers. Click or don't click, it doesn't really matter. More »

10:00 AM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Moe
2,685 views, 113 comments

Latest by n/a: @SarahMC: Do you still live in Scranton? I work near Wilkes-Barre. more »

crappy hour

And The $300 Million Defense Contract Goes To...The 22-Year-Old Abusive Boyfriend Who Never Had A Job!

Do you ever wonder, where do the weapons our Pentagon is buying to supply the Afghan counterinsurgency actually come from? Well, duh, China, but, let's start over. Meet Efraim Diveroli. He has some sort of $300 million Pentagon contract to supply ammunition to the government. He also has: never had a real job, a drinking problem, a woman with a restraining order against him, a beautiful headquarters in the heart of Miami Beach, a 25-year-old VP whose only certification in anything is that he is a licensed masseur, and wiretaps of him talking about bribing the Albanian defense department by sending him whores. And all of this makes sense because Efraim Diveroli is 22 YEARS OLD. Yeah, we talked about our allies in Pakistan and John McCain, Chelsea Clinton and that douchebag who asked her about Monica, polling data, where that Bosnia story really came from, Donald Trump, corporate profits and our hangovers — oh and don't miss the riveting discussion of our Facebook horoscopes and Diddy and Tupac— but shit gets really epic when Glamocracy's Megan and I get down to...which under-25 year old Israeli mob arms dealer we'd rather get down with! Jump. More »

10:00 AM on Thu Mar 27 2008
By Moe
13,060 views, 151 comments

Latest by That_little_attention_whore: @thefrontpage: LOL @ Mr. Magorium's Magic Emporium. Seriously tho - love Natalie's hair in that movie. Thinking of getting mine cut like that. (Now it's a bit more Posh Spice. Yeah, that's right, I have a Posh Spice hair cut and more »

serious issues

Natalie Portman's Tireless Work On Behalf Of...Nothingness

Who is the world's best celebrity? The New York Times Magazine came out this week and seemed like it was going to decree it to be Natalie Portman. While Angie, Brad, Bono, Clooney, Don Cheadle, Mia Farrow, Matt Damon, John Legend etc. etc. mostly dedicate themselves to Darfurian genocide and such, Natalie Portman's big issue is microfinance, which is, as causes go, apparently not as sexy. (Well, it's sexy if you're on the Nobel Committee, but you know.) Anyway, so, the genesis of Portman's decision to try and heal the world began in 2003, her senior year at Harvard, because "something very bad" happened to a friend of hers in Israel — where she was born. She won't say what happened, but she decided to call up Queen Rania of Jordan — an ethnic Palestinian! — and Rania suggested she get involved in microcredit, since it is pretty much the least controversial sort of philanthropy an Israeli and/or Arab are able to get involved in together. More »

5:00 PM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Moe
5,649 views, 133 comments

Latest by n/a: @Archetype: alas, you're probably not reading this anymore...i meant that i didn't understand your last line and was needing clarification. oh well. more »

news roundup

Hillary Clinton Never Should Have Granted That Interview To US Weekly, Camille Paglia Tells US Weekly

  • On the eve before the Texas/Ohio primaries that could end the Hillary Clinton candidacy, Camille Paglia decided to give an exclusive interview to...US Weekly. In which: she praises Barack Obama for his superior kung fu skills and rails against Hillary for hiring a team "so self-infatuated with their own clever superiority, that in fact they're quite transparent," and also choosing to appear in US Weekly. [US Weekly]
  • Whatev! Hill's in "happy-warrior mode." [NY Times]
  • "Colombia has become the Israel of Latin America." Hugo Chavez re the killing of commander Raul Reyes and 16 other FARC guerrillas on Saturday. [Haaretz]
  • Ummmm, we're busy dealing with the Israel of the Middle East right now, mkay guys?(Hahaha Kthanxdie). Condi visits tomorrow following Israeli air strikes on Gaza that have killed 117 Palestinians. [Wash Post]
  • Rush Limbaugh asks his callers to vote for Hillary because "this is too good a soap opera...We need Barack Obama bloodied up politically. It's obvious that the Republicans are not going to do it, they don't have the stomach for it... I know it's a difficult thing to do, vote for Clinton. But it will sustain this soap opera, and it's something I think we need and it'll be fun, too." [CNN]

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7:30 PM on Mon Mar 3 2008
By Moe
2,099 views, 69 comments

Latest by n/a: Is Paglia dating Ann Coulter yet? more »

Baduizms Dear Hillary: We know one person who neither denounces nor rejects Louis Farrakhan: Erykah Badu. We took a listen to her new album Amerykah last night, and just three songs in, Badu literally sings Farrakhan's praises, saying, "So I salute you, Farrakhan, yes, because you are me." Badu has voiced her support for the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader before — in Israel, no less — but (ahem) Jesus Christ, did she have to do it again in the midst of such a beautiful song? [Haaretz]

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crappy hour

"You Know When They Say It Was Like Something Out Of The Bible?"

Here's a photo from yesterday's bountiful Shopping Spree of Sinai, during which Palestinians who've been going without food and fuel and motorcycles since the Israelis blockaded them seven months ago in response to a bunch of rocket attacks, finally said, hey look, here's another border wall with a country that isn't quite so aggro about things, let's see what happens if we tear that one down instead. And, well, what happened was very good for anyone in the business of changing shekels into Egyptian pounds. Meanwhile on the home front, the endless campaign of 2008 continued and from two laptop computers in separate East Coast cities of America, Megan and I wondered pointlessly what would happen if America let all the Mexicans kick down our border walls and come shopping, so long as they didn't bring their guns... More »

10:00 AM on Thu Jan 24 2008
By Moe
5,628 views, 226 comments

Latest by TripsyDaily: @Smackdown: Heh heh - since your best argument is "whatever" I think my point has been made. more »

Fracas over at Ms.! Some Jewish feminists are up in arms because the magazine refused to publish a full page ad that featured 3 Israeli women in politics: Tzipi Livni, Israel's foreign minister, Dalia Itzik, the speaker of the Knesset (Israel's Parliament), and the president of Israel's supreme court, Dorit Beinisch. The American Jewish Congress called Ms.'s decision "hostile" and "contemptible" and accused the mag of anti-Israeli sentiment. Ms. executive editor Katherine Spillar told UPI, "Our role at Ms. magazine is not to promote countries, it is to report on what's happening to women in different countries." [UPI]

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For you fellow sleepyheads out there who love the warm embrace of an afternoon nap, good news! Israeli researchers have found that a daytime snooze can help memory. According to the United Press International, "The researchers found sleep helped overcome interference — the brain processing new information that interferes with remembering old information learned earlier in the day. Another group of participants in the study taught the same skills, but without the nap showed no improvement in their ability to perform the task." So next time your boss catches you asleep under your desk, just tell her you're working on processing new information. That'll go over well! [UPI]

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end of days

We Wish We'd Bought A 'Free Winona' T-Shirt Way Back When

  • Winona Ryder is speaking out now about her shoplifting. Honestly? No one gives a shit. [People]
  • In the UK, one in four 18-to-25-year olds cannot answer the following question: What is one eighth of 32? [BBC]
  • Al-Qaeda said to be "stepping-up" its presence in the U.S. Please God, no one tell Elisabeth Hasselbeck. The thought of her ranting and raving about this is scarier than the threat of a terrorist act itself. [BBC]
  • Memo to Hillary: The woman who is to be India's first female president - not so popular. [NYT]
  • Harry Potter the book? Too long. Harry Potter the movie? Too heavy-handed. But Harry Potter the postage stamp? Now we're talking! [USA Today]
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7:05 PM on Tue Jul 17 2007
By Jennifer
2,393 views, 10 comments

Latest by littlenicola: As a woman named Winona, I am proud to say that yes, I did buy a "Free Winona" t-shirt way back when, but only to wear ironically. more »

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