Olmert, Smolmert, I Still Wouldn't Vote for Him

You gotta hand it to Meretz. They took all of the slurs that other Israelis have thrown at them for years and turned it into a positive message. While Likud is accusing Olmert of being a leftist, which I guess puts the actual left wing on some sort of different plane, Meretz has launched their new campaign: We Love, Women, Gays and Arabs. Damn straight. It's about time someone took pride in actually being in favor of something. So while Bibi is claiming that he's strong against Hamas, Meretz is reminding people that they actually want to help people. HaSmol Ozer La'Aravim? You got that right!
Of course, Meretz's appealing to me with their slogans means nothing. Even if I could vote, my vote would probably go to Labor. But only because I know that Labor won't win. I'd love to see Avoda in the opposition. Well really, anyone but Likud. I want to Likud to sit and be Kadima's bitch. I want Bibi to lose all political credibility. Let him go become mayor of Dimona or something. What's most unfortunate about Israeli politics is that if 95% of former Likud voters decided they didn't want to vote Likud simply because they hate Bibi, Likud would still get two mandates. And Bibi would remain in office. And I feel the same way about Yossi Beillin.
I guess what I'm really trying to say here is that I'd love an omelet right about now.

Help Ari Fight the First Amendment

Maybe I'm misunderstanding Ari's request. But I think it has something to do with being a self-hating Jew. Or a self-hating movie script-writer. That's it. Anyway, read his post. Then, find out when I have a day off, and take me to see the movie. Because I can't afford it on my own.
But please, do not sign the petition.

I am a Bad Person

Discuss.

Ein Aravim, Ein Peguim, Ein Applause

Last night, I went to the first Hip Hop Night at Mike's Place. I was excited to see Rebel Sun in action before he gets deported. Sadly, I might have missed the boat, because Rebel Sun wasn't there. Instead, I found Roy Edri, host of 24's Dibur Tzafuf, on the state, rocking out in an acoustic hip hop set. Seeing as how I was the only one in the room who owned his CD (and probably the only one in the country), he was excited to hear me singing along. So he was hella friendly, gave me his number, made friends with Cider, Makar, Annie and other Steph. Rock on.
Of course, the night turned sour by the end, when one of the jackasses at Mike's Place took the mic. This rapper, MC B-E-Double N-Y, decided to basically take the show over from Roy. One of his great rhymes was "ein aravim, ein peguim, it is no dream." Seeing as how this racist bullshit had no room at Roy's positive-vibe show, Annie and I started to boo, and then we stopped dancing and sat down. About 5 minutes later, Roy tried to take away the microphone, and Benny wouldn't let him! Finally, Roy took control, and told Benny that his negativity had no place at his show. Benny took the mic back, kept rapping about being a racist former Yeshuva bucher, blah blah, but Roy ended the night on a positive note. As he gave me and Annie hugs good night, he told us that he didn't want the racist stuff at his show. I wanted to ask him how he could be on a Subliminal album (yeled rehov, off of HaOr ve HaTzel), if he didn't buy the racist crap, but I'm still hoping he'll give me a job.

On a final note, I am surviving TRY. If you are my TRY/USY High hanich reading this, then it's the best program ever and I love you very much.
If you are not one of my hanichim, please come save me!