False Dichotomies

LITERATURE HIP-HOP ISRAEL INDIA LOVE MISCELLANY

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July 16th, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized

1. Keep Calm London.

2. India institutes national ID card.

3. Debating Jay-Z’s hegemony.

4. Hamas exposes sexy Zionist chewing gum plot.

5. Tim Allon.

6. The Death of Bunny Munro.

7. No Leonard Cohen in Ramallah.  

8. Fighting for African refugees in Israel.

9. Granta in Anglo-American denial.

10. Ten books to be tossed out the canon.

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  1. LB July 16th, 2009 4:26 pm

    9 – Alex, What do you think should be done? Standing idly by – no. Accepting thousands more into already delicate demographic balance – also no. What then?

  2. Gabriel July 17th, 2009 12:03 am

    #4-do you know where to get this gum? There’s this gorgeous girl at a store down the block and the gum could be very useful

    #10 Disagree with some, agree with some. I think most of “the cannon” is pretty good and is there for a reason (some is dull-I have always found Conrad to be unbearable for example) and is a better approach than what is used in some schools (the anti-Cannon) whereby only writers nobody has ever heard of (for good reason) are read. Everybody has their own tastes obviously and if you love reading, read as much as possible and you will discover so much.

  3. Avram July 17th, 2009 1:14 pm

    Gabriel – I’ve actually got a few **wink wink** friends working in Gaza and I’ve asked them to buy this gum at WHATEVER cost shop owners offer. Once I’ve got it back to the Entity, I plan to sell it on e-bay. You can have a pack though, allai.

  4. LB July 17th, 2009 7:22 pm

    I’m not sure how much of use this gum would be to anyone themself. Unless you found a way to feed it to someone else – then again, the word roofies jumps to mind…

  5. Gabriel July 17th, 2009 7:51 pm

    “I’m not sure how much of use this gum would be to anyone themself. Unless you found a way to feed it to someone else – then again, the word roofies jumps to mind…”

    No, no. Roofies are drugging a girl. Immoral and illegal. This just makes the girl want to have sex with you. Just casually chat with the object of your affection, offer her a piece of gum and you are good to go. It really is kind of sad though-it’s the type of thing that happens in closed societies. Conspiracy theories permeate.

  6. LB July 17th, 2009 8:10 pm

    Just for the record, my comment was tongue-in-cheek, and no far reaching implications of any kind were intended…

  7. Gert July 19th, 2009 9:01 pm

    It would appear that the IDF has its own little dirty secret weapon: a pernicious purple-green Cross and Crescent Axis of Evil has been exposed! Benedict and Nasrallah: brothers in arms! Who’d have thunk it?

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