“No sound save the rush of the river, / While soft falls the dew on the face of the dead—”

[larryhammer]

Links of varying importance:

Naomi Klein: “Side with the child over the gun every single time, no matter whose gun and no matter whose child.” (via janni)

(I’ll let that sit there for a moment. If you follow only one of these links, let it be that one.)

Wiktionary has started the important task of building out entries for emoji. Did they get to 🍑 and 🍆 quickly? Of course they did 😂

“The human brain uses one mechanism to assess [the number of items when there are] four or fewer items and a different one for when there are five or more.” (via)

---L.

Subject quote from All Quiet Along the Potomac (aka The Picket Guard), Ethel Lynn Beers.

Comments

[trobadora]

Naomi Klein: “Side with the child over the gun every single time, no matter whose gun and no matter whose child.”

A great quote from a great article. Thank you for sharing!

[larryhammer]

Best writing on the whole fustercluck I've read.

A close second is The Onion's take.

[trobadora]

Oh, ouch. Thank you again!

[mme_n_b]

" the non-Jewish world hates Jews and always will – look, even the bleeding-heart left is making excuses for our killers and thinks that Jewish kids and old ladies deserved death merely by living in Israel." She's an optimist. She thinks that if we don't live in Israel they won't hate us.

The overpass under which I drove my kids to get to summer camp displayed a banner accusing us of 9/11. This didn't even make the local news because it's a non-issue. There are men with Palestinian flags in the main square of my nearest city. Go ahead, tell me this liberal, strong, diverse country of ours is safe for my children.


"when Israeli Jews are killed in their homes and it is celebrated by people who claim to be anti-racists and anti-fascists, that is experienced as antisemitism by a great many Jews." OMG, I'm just experiencing this as antisemitism! Of course it's not really antisemitism! Silly me.

When Ms Klein is in the gaswagen with the rest of us she's going to be terribly disappointed in that left she wants to be a part of.