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- The Most Ridiculous Story Ever Told
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* People Leak To People Who Are Fun (6-11-26)
* Why Does Australia Produce So Many Great Journalists? (6-11-26)
* Steve Wynn and the Press: Power, Litigation, and the Contest Over Las Vegas (6-3-26)
* Sheldon Adelson and the Journalists (6-3-26)
* The Vigilant Animal: Thinkers Who Reject the Myth of Human Gullibility (6-2-26)
* The Cost of Refusing the Misunderstanding Myth (6-2-26)
* Show Me How It Travels (6-2-26)
* The Norm Explainers (6-2-26)
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Category Archives: Articles
Your Moral Leader Gets In Shape For The Super Bowl
I’ve put aside the sacred texts to produce this Jane Fonda-style workout video to the theme of Rocky. Chaim Amalek writes: If you were more entrepreneurial, you would be rich! Think: baseball trading cards but with rabbis instead of sportsmen. … Continue reading
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Depressed Blogger Launches Attack Ad On Self
WASHINGTON—In the midst of a fiercely competitive race to be America’s top Republican-Jewish blogger, an increasingly depressed Luke Ford shocked Orthodox insiders Monday when he released a new national attack ad targeting himself. The ad, which is scheduled to air … Continue reading
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Conference tackles horny Jewish-Polish relationship
If you check out the picture of Poland’s consul general you’ll understand the problem. At one time, we hated each other. Now we’re shtupping each other. Is there no happy medium? I must congratulate the Jewish Journal for livening up … Continue reading
Kill Bill
From Dennis Prager: Monday January 28, 2008 H1: Kill Bill With Dennis Prager Prager H1: The most popular Democrat in the country, Bill Clinton, may not be so popular anymore. There is a feeling that he’s hurting Hillary’s campaign because … Continue reading
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Give Me Your Rental/Landlord Horror Stories
Homeless LA is written by Luke Ford and friends. Our primary email is [email protected]. Send in your tenant horror stories and your landlord horror stories to [email protected]. We’ll give a prize to the winner. Email Luke Ford.
Your Moral Leader’s Lurid Midnight Confessions
My latest videos are on turning friends into enemies and enemies into friends. Thirteen minutes of exquisite wisdom recorded at midnight. I used to assume that if you made a friend, you made him for life. It doesn’t always work … Continue reading
Murder In Pacific Palisades
From TabloidBaby: A “domestic dispute” in the middle of Sunset Boulevard in the driving rain led to murder in quiet Pacific Palisades sometime around midnight and a crime scene at the Mobil at the corner of Sunset and Swarthmore in … Continue reading
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I’ve Launched A New Blog With A Friend – HomelessLA.com
My friend writes on homelessla.com: From Aagla (Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles) we get the Answer: In California, you can’t discriminate against prospective renters on the basis of their income source. For insstance, you can’t put something in your … Continue reading
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Robin Garbose
From The Jewish Week: Los Angeles — The tops of moonlit palm trees hovered above hundreds of Orthodox girls and women who drove through the enormous gates of Paramount Studio’s lot to The Sherry Lansing Theater on a recent Saturday … Continue reading
Who Profits From Britney?
Portfolio reports: The Paparazzi A Britney photo garners anywhere from $250 (for a run-of-the-mill shot of her at Starbucks) to $100,000 or more. The photo agency X17, which has a team trailing her 24-7, estimates that Britney accounts for 30 … Continue reading