Friday, November 6, 2009

Friday evening roundup

I'm not a very good Jew. Just yesterday, I looked at a rainbow--a large, beautiful one that rose to my east as I biked down 7th Street. But even as a shellfish-eating, rainbow-looking Jew, I still take offense at this:
But the best of Bachmann's recruits were a few rows into the crowd, holding aloft a pair of 5-by-8-foot banners proclaiming "National Socialist Healthcare, Dachau, Germany, 1945." Both banners showed close-up photographs of Holocaust victims, many of them children.
Read the whole column. That's just the tip of the iceberg.

No rest for the barn-raised.

Moving from barn-raised to grass-fed, Professor McWilliams is quite annoying to listen to, and that video is quite long, but I agree with most of what he says. Do watch the first ten minutes or so, which holds the best part: he says that according to his Times editor, food articles generate so much passion that only the stories about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict inspire more responses.

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1 comment:

Ernessa T. Carter said...

You know how it's hard to have an intelligent conversation with anyone who says anything about "the devil" being responsible for any one's actions?

The Holocaust is the new devil.

If you try to call anyone a Nazi or compare anything happening today that doesn't actually involve a real genocide (like Darfur) to the Holocaust, then I immediately dismiss you as an idiot who can't come up with an intelligent argument and I stop talking to you. That's my way of dealing with this disturbing trend among Republicans.