Nina says Free Link!

Are you telling us that The Chosen wasn’t a factual depiction of baseball as haredi assimilation?

Except that according to the gospels the Romans explained why they executed him; it was because he claimed (or his followers claimed in his name) that he was king.

Wait, that was books/year? I thought it was books/month!

3 of 3. I’m relieved because I would have been super embarrassed to be wrong.

I am prevented from enjoying this dish at my own table by my husband’s horror of all things aspic.

We are united in this, if in nothing else. (We are united in several things, obviously).

Yeah, I could see that. I suppose that if Israel did release Barghouti they would expel him.

Is Hamas asking for the release of Barghouti because they expect Israel to refuse? I wouldn’t have expected them to exactly care about him.

I’ll tell Netanyahu where he can put his lulav.

That’s certainly a take.

Do you ever think that if US Jews had been able to have a couple of weeks to mourn properly, there would have been a whole lot less support for the Israeli military response from the get-go? I do.

Yes, but…. I’ve seen the same resistance among people asked not to use g*pped, or to say someone w*lshed on a bet. The laziness can be attributed to ignorance of how epithets work, unwillingness to take trouble with language, and other things. It’s not necessarily antisemitism, though in this case….

You know who almost never does this? Palestinians. They recognize and call out antisemitism when they see it.

XKCD cartoon: Person 1: SILICATE CHEMISTRY IS SECOND NATURE TO US GEOCHEMISTS, SO IT'S EASY TO FORGET THAT THE AVERAGE PERSON PROBABLY ONLY KNOWS THE FORMULAS FOR OLIVINE AND ONE OR TWO FELDSPARS. Person 2: AND QUARTZ, OF COURSE. Person 1: OF COURSE.

One of my favorite XKCD cartoons:

Ewwwww.

My rheumatologist just retired. So I switched to a guy who’s new to this practice but has a fantastic background. And he has so few patients so far that he spent an hour and a half on my intake appointment and ordered all sorts of tests. I was astounded.

How many of them were protesting you banning Link?

Chag Sukkot Sameach, friends.

😢

I hope it’s approaching equilibrium.

Perhaps he’s indicating that he’s an eldritch horror or something.

I hope you’re never faced with such a dilemma.

Jedwabne.

There were new pogroms against returning Jews. That’s not fears, that was reality. blame the US, Britain, or whoever for not taking in refugees and displaced persons after WWII (I sure do). But do not blame people whose homes had been destroyed for going to the only place willing to take them in.

Let’s see: there were about 320,000 Jews living in/returned to Poland in 1946 and about 17,000 today. I wonder why that is and why Jews should go back to face it again?

They couldn’t come up with a single harp?

That’s a class marker.

No, but they say “thank you sweet.”

Oops!

Yeah, but the second time you watch The Wire you can hear it.