Well, this is now officially a series. Here I intend to give some thoughts on the Alaska Senate Judiciary Committee meeting of February 15, 2013, which can be viewed here. …

This might become a series, let’s see how it pans out. The following are my thoughts after listening to the February 8th meeting of the Alaska House Ways and Means Committee. This meeting can be viewed here, courtesy of Gavel Alaska. This is not necessarily a response to anything from…

In 1989, when I was a toddler, my family moved from Israel to the United States. At the time, the Latest and Greatest Thing in toddler entertainment was Walt Disney Pictures’ brand-new, revolutionary film, The Little Mermaid. When the movie came out on home video, my mom decided she should…

(Or: הפעם השלישית, אנתישמיות) I didn’t want to talk about ice cream tonight. I was actively avoiding the news articles that talked about it. Another anti-Israel boycott. We’ve been here before. My one lone voice isn’t going to change anything. …

Sometimes when I’m reviewing Thing A, I like to start with a review of Thing X first. It helps me to give context to what I want to say about Thing A, even if they may seem entirely unrelated. …

So. It’s March 1st. We are now three weeks away from Israel’s fourth election in two years. And, honestly, if not for COVID, we’d probably be on the fifth election by now. I was originally going to do a quick run-down of how we got here and then go into…

I’m writing this at 5am, because holy hell have I just entirely lost control of my sleep cycle, and I definitely didn’t sleep last night at all, and I’m kind of hoping that if I take a shower around 6 or 7 and force myself to go outside, it will…

I want everyone to join me in a little thought experiment for a moment. Imagine that you’ve just walked through a door, into a room. It’s a normal room. A few chairs, maybe a sofa. There’s a coffee table. Some bookshelves. Just, some generic room in some generic space. …

The other night, as a part of Juneau’s Social Justice Movie Club, which is organized by the incomparable Catherine Hatch, I watched the 2018 RBG documentary. …