Category Archives: Juvenile Scorn

Thursday news briefs

Posted on 01/19/2012 by Meryl Yourish

Because name-calling is such a great way to make your point: This column in Ha’aretz is titled “Every Jewish mother’s nightmare.” What, that their son/daughter intermarry and don’t raise the children in the faith? That they should, God forbid, die … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel, Juvenile Scorn, Media Bias, palestinian politics, Terrorism | 5 Comments

Say, Karl Vick, does moderation include calling for war?

Posted on 12/15/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Say, Karl Vick, are you SURE Hamas is moderating? I’m thinking that Karl Vick (rhymes with “dick”) ((cf. Time Magazine’s infamous “Menachem Begin*” (rhymes with “Fagin”) issue)) is, well, wrong about Hamas becoming more moderate due to its dealings with … Continue reading →

Posted in Hamas, Juvenile Scorn, Media Bias | 2 Comments

The Reason Occupy Wall Street anthem

Posted on 10/10/2011 by Meryl Yourish

It is full of teh awesome.

Posted in Juvenile Scorn, Occupy Wall Street | 2 Comments

The presidents wants YOU to snitch on your neighbor

Posted on 09/14/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Really? Attack Watch? Really? The president of the United States of America is so effing insecure that he has a website dedicated to trying to “fight the smears” about him? Really? Because it’s not like the media ever posted a … Continue reading →

Posted in Juvenile Scorn, Politics, The One | 2 Comments

The obligatory end of the world post

Posted on 05/21/2011 by Meryl Yourish

As I am quite sure I won’t be going anywhere during the Rapture, what with my being Jewish and all that, here’s a post where those of us who will not be going anywhere can discuss the mayhem and chaos … Continue reading →

Posted in Juvenile Scorn | 2 Comments

Hassan Nasrallah: moving house

Posted on 05/10/2011 by SnoopyTheGoon

This was really just a joke. Timing is all, you know how it goes… However, now it appears to be a prophetic one: Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah has made fundamental changes in his personal security arrangements to avoid being killed … Continue reading →

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Mel Gibson schadenfreude update

Posted on 05/08/2011 by Meryl Yourish

The Beaver is declared a flop–on opening weekend. Sucks to be you today, Mel. Awww. Are we sad? Nope. Not at all.

Posted in Juvenile Scorn, Movies | 1 Comment

Juvenile scorn and the Marrickville Israel boycott

Posted on 04/15/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Some wit in Australia has an excellent editorial about the Marrickville town council’s stupendously stupid effort to boycott Israeli products (at the cost of $3.7 million Australian). Kudos to the author, to whom I grant an honorary Master of Juvenile … Continue reading →

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Yes, it’s all Israel’s fault

Posted on 02/22/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Libyan troops are massacring protesters. Bodies are lying in the streets. The arms that Ghaddafy is using to murder his countrymen? Supplied by Britain and Italy. Hezbollah is now deeply intertwined with the Mexican drug cartels, teaching them advanced bomb-making … Continue reading →

Posted in Juvenile Scorn, Middle East | Tagged , , | 5 Comments

The linkage issue, proven

Posted on 01/29/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Now that the Middle East is engulfed in chaos in three nations—Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen, with Jordan possibly right behind—it has utterly proven the theory that if only Israel and the Palestinians were at peace, the problems of the Middle … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome, Juvenile Scorn, World | Tagged , , | 3 Comments

It’s true: Dictators hate being mocked

Posted on 01/17/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Hugo Chavez forced a Colombian soap opera off the air in Venezuela because it mocked him and his country. I think he’s right about the mocking part, anyway. A Venezuelan television station has stopped airing a Colombian soap opera after … Continue reading →

Posted in Juvenile Scorn, World | 3 Comments

The incivility of the right left

Posted on 01/12/2011 by Meryl Yourish

Remember this? It’s from an entire website that was developed solely to apologize to the world for re-electing George W. Bush. Say, that right-wing incivility that the pundits are all decrying? Backatcha, pals. In this one, “get the bastards” is … Continue reading →

Posted in Juvenile Scorn, Politics | Tagged | 1 Comment

Boycott Israel: Stop miracles from happening

Posted on 12/08/2010 by Meryl Yourish

The boycott and divest morons are working to prevent Israeli inventions like this: Oh, sure, they say they’re not against innovation. But boycotting Israel, with the intent to harm Israel’s economy, means companies that invent devices like this don’t get … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel, Juvenile Scorn | Tagged | 6 Comments

Another Master of Juvenile Scorn

Posted on 12/03/2010 by Meryl Yourish

I think I already bestowed this title on Jeffrey Goldberg, but I’m going to point out again how he is, indeed, a Master of Juvenile Scorn on the same level as yours truly (and that is a rare, rare, rare … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti-Semitism, Juvenile Scorn | Tagged , | 8 Comments

Mediterranean conference cancelled on account of cooties

Posted on 11/12/2010 by Soccerdad

When I read something like this Mediterranean summit canceled again due to Arab threat to boycott over Israel (via Daily Alert Blog) An international summit of Mediterranean leaders has been canceled for the third time because Arab states threatened to … Continue reading →

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The dull, throbbing anxiety of Jonathan Franzen’s potential reader

Posted on 10/31/2010 by SnoopyTheGoon

I have a confession to make. It is with growing feelings of inferiority and frustration that I look at the growing list of authors who, according to widely accepted verdict of literary critics belong to the Pantheon of greatness or … Continue reading →

Posted in American Scene, Juvenile Scorn | 9 Comments

The Stewart/Colbert rally

Posted on 10/30/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Is it my imagination, or were the only black people at the rally onstage when the OJays sang “Love Train“? Also, funny, isn’t it, that Stewart didn’t introduce Yusuf Islam by his full name? Oh, wait. I forgot. Cat Stevens … Continue reading →

Posted in Juvenile Scorn, Pop Culture | 2 Comments

A textbook example of a moronic commenter

Posted on 10/18/2010 by Meryl Yourish

While trying to wrap my brain around the New York Times Magazine profiling Pamela Geller, I came across Charles Johnson and Robert Spencer in the Guardian’s Comment is Free. Now, I sometimes delve into the CiF comment sink, because Know … Continue reading →

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A public service announcement about chain emails

Posted on 10/12/2010 by Meryl Yourish

Just in case my readers didn’t know this, I would like to state plainly and clearly so that there can be no misunderstanding: Passing along chain letters will not make you any money. Not now, not ever. An interesting fact … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers, Juvenile Scorn | 4 Comments

Even the losers write history sometimes

Posted on 10/11/2010 by Soccerdad

I am no historian. But I can’t help the feeling that the New York Times’s account of the recdently declassified transcripts of the Israeli government’s deliberations over the war wasn’t presented in academic fashion, but rather to promote the view … Continue reading →

Posted in Israel, Juvenile Scorn, Syria | Tagged | 7 Comments