At a party on a Friday in San Diego, a prominent architect, a rugby player by the name of Grahm "Basher" Downes had his head bashed in. A memorial service held for him on a Rugby field included beers and big breasted samba dancers. "A Celebration of a Life" they called it. One person after … Continue reading America, You’re Funny: Funeral

I love Boston. I nearly moved to Boston. It's a smart but stupid city. It's a small but big city. It has attitude, it has food and it is the center of America, spiritual America. New York is like our wang and DC is our brain but Boston is our heart; birthplace of our revolution. … Continue reading Israel’s Independence, Patriot’s Day, Boston Marathon

So between Noriega in Panama, Guatemala, El Sal, Mexico and Colombia and Afghanistan, we've spent a lot of money to fight drugs and yet when we read about countries like Colombia, we find out that we are responsible for the drug trade there. We spend money to fight that which we support so we spend … Continue reading America, You’re Funny – War on Drugs

Cost Rica (Rich Coast) is a great place for Gringos. Lots of people speak English and the place has lots to do and can be as expensive and as cheap as you want it to be.Make sure to have a ticket out of Costa Rica, a bus ticket will suffice. From airport: walk around the … Continue reading Costa Rica

Contrary to popular belief, Mexico is fairly safe, modern and a great place to go. Here are some tips to make your time there easier.  Flying from Tijuana may take more time than worth the hassle.Getting around Mexico by car, watch out for topas (speed bumps) as they are never marked.Cops will generally not bother … Continue reading Mexico

The most common two things I heard about the movie Django unchained was:The word "nigger" is used a lot and that it is hard to watch because of the violence.Well guess what, "nigger" is what black people were called back then and there were a lot of black people in that movie and so guess … Continue reading America You’re Funny: Django

The IOC committee has without understanding why wrestling is an Olympic sport shamed themselves by for whatever reason trying to keep 25 sports and allowing sports with representatives stay and wrestling fall... Well let me tell you why wrestling is a core sport and why it finishes off the Olympics.Wrestling doesn't get much respect because … Continue reading IOC committee has shamed themselves but they can fix it

They are cutting 20% my roommate says as I sit on my computer reading news in the morning and going over hebrew lesson of the day.He works as an Engineer in the defense department."That's after they raised it by a lot since 9/11" I say"Well yeah but that saved the economy.""Holy shit!" I realize. "That's … Continue reading America You’re Funny: Republican Roommate vs Democrat Roommate

Listening to a return congressman Rick Nolan describe how they used to work full days and 42 weeks a year in the seventies and eighties and now they show up 32 weeks a year and are lucky if they work a few hours a day... Well that explains this dysfunctional country; there's no one running … Continue reading America, you’re funny: Congress

Seeing the world through mine and eyes of others, I realize that I live in a tiny island of priviledge that we often confuse for the world in 21st century. The advances we have are available to very very few people that we believe characterize the 21st century.Watch these and see your view of the … Continue reading TED Photography Talk