This is a naive perspective. You think Obama freed CM because he wanted to boost his public image? Let’s get something straight: CM is despised on a level that Snowden, and few other people, will ever come close to. I don’t know where you live, but I live in a major city on the West Coast and even here, where more…

I always point it out because I know a lot of Jews who use the bat mitzvah to pink wash the religion. Let me tell you, no one in my family ever had a bat mitzvah. As far as I know, no one marked any of my grandmother’s birthdays when she was growing up. Why would they? She was one of ten children and there were sons!

Let’s also remember that the Weimar Republic, and Germany during the interwar period, was socially a very progressive place. Jews had more rights in Germany than in practically any other part of Europe where there was a significant Jewish population. There was a vibrant Gay and Lesbian scene. Also vibrant Marxist and…

My Jewish grandmother is older than Anne Frank. And still very much alive and kicking. I hadn’t done that math either.

Since it was Europe, it probably wasn’t a bat mitzvah present.

This is so true. I was heartbroken when Bush was reelected. I just couldn’t fathom four more years of the Bush Cheney war machine. Four more years of having to watch white, white bread, evangelical men and women act like their reality was reality. But here’s what I’ll say for Bush:

What about abortion? Forgive the question, but I honestly have a hard time understanding how another woman could be with a man who would vote for a candidate that has promised to end abortion. Because to me, that’s rolling the dice and playing with my life and the lives of my potential children. Because I would like a…