Mmmm. Mima'amakim blog. Wake up and smell the tokenism.

The boys who run this site have to get credit where it's due. Somehow, they allowed- nay, invited- a redheaded, foulmouthed feminist (and here's the clincher) Reform Jewess from North Carolina write for this blog. I also am not Jewish, depending who you ask, since my father's the one with the Semite cred. Thought it was best to get that out on the table.

But that's the point of this whole website. Voices. Creativity. Expression. A few weeks ago I was interviewing for a job and it just so happened that the owner of the company was Jewish, albeit a lot more conservative than me (dude, I have Heeb magazine on my resume). She asked me how I would feel if conversation in the office got political, since her views- and those of most of her coworkers- is more right wing.

"That's the whole point of debate, isn't it?" I said. "If I just wanted a bunch of people who agreed with me, I have friends for that."

Long story short, I got offered the job. So chalk another one up to free speech.