Nina says Free Link!

Some of John is downright poetic.

No, if not for her protecting Andrew he would have been out long ago.

There’s Asenath Barzani.

They eat a lot of other birds in my neighborhood. My next door neighbor saw one take a songbird right out of a tree one time.

I looked out the kitchen window one morning to see a hawk (there are a lot of them around here) sitting on the birdbath eating a robin.

Shrove is the past participle of shrive. Shrive is an old word for granting absolution. In the old old days, the English went to confession and got shriven the day before Lent started, so they could take communion on Ash Wednesday.

Yeah, you can’t make that pun/mistake in any language other than English.

I was just mad about the Universal Translator being English-Only.

San Fernando (king Fernando III of Castile) wrote to the Pope to say that no, he wasn’t going to make Castilian Jews wear badges.

It’s the basic premise of Christianity, but for most religions the basic premise is observance/practice.

That episode has bothered me ever since it aired.

She seems to have deleted all those posts.

There were pogroms in Poland *after the war*

Nobody talks about it, but the Gee’s Bend quilters do the same thing as the Shakers: putting beauty into utilitarian objects—and in their case, with the poorest of materials.

But it was? Rulers got to choose their religion and their subjects had to lump it. That said, the same process was at work when rulers chose other religions, including pagan ones.

It’s binding for a lot of Jews.

No, but you were.

It’s so brilliant, and it reminds you that June Carter should have let Johnny Cash go to hell on his own and continued with her acting career.

I think this is the first time I’ve encountered someone who can’t think of alternative ways to say “Zionist” but has lots of little euphemisms to avoid saying “the Holocaust.”

Or: “I have refused to donate to the Federation for decades now because they have consistently supported Netanyahu’s vile policies.”

No, you’d just meet a lot of RETVRN people.

Oh, no. Him with De Niro, sitting in a car saying nothing, is one of my all-time favorite scenes. (True Confessions)

Usually it’s for the artists, though.

Apostrophes are a Jewish perversion.

Dispatch from court observation at 26 Federal Plaza: only one person detained, but one is too many. Swarmed by 10 masked agents without showing a warrant.

I think it makes you a crank who likes power. The results are the same, but the motivations are different.

Lysenko didn’t hate science. He was just wrong.

Oh, you know.

I mean, my dad was sent to Europe specifically to kill the kind of people who got Nazi tattoos. He had many political shortcomings, but voting for people with Nazi tattoos wasn’t one of them.

Muttering in historian about there never having been such a time….