Wednesday morning roundup

Why supporting the GZnM is the Jewish thing to do; and the jack@$$ who "argues" otherwise. Religion aside, let's recall how the rest of the country loses when we let the rabid hatemongerers win.

Perhaps the above debate can be resolved, like many a New York real estate dilemma, with feng shui.

Putting down the Blackberry is good for the brain.

Cairo is officially sprawling. And the Times uses "comprise" in a way that I know has become okay, but I still hate it.

Really, Britain? Do you really want to compete with Russia for most assishly alcoholic nation?

Eggs and the food safety debate.

Just say no to more farm subsidies.

Alligators are springing up in unexpected places.

Corporate social responsibility at its best.

Do not even get me started on the VA AG's latest assault on personal freedoms.

The Post's conservatives are taking exception to the toxicity and broken karma around the nation, although the latter column--Kathleen Parker's--is just kind of annoying.

Who really writes it best is MLK III:

My father championed free speech. He would be the first to say that those participating in Beck's rally have the right to express their views. But his dream rejected hateful rhetoric and all forms of bigotry or discrimination, whether directed at race, faith, nationality, sexual orientation or political beliefs. He envisioned a world where all people would recognize one another as sisters and brothers in the human family. Throughout his life he advocated compassion for the poor, nonviolence, respect for the dignity of all people and peace for humanity.

Although he was a profoundly religious man, my father did not claim to have an exclusionary "plan" that laid out God's word for only one group or ideology. He marched side by side with members of every religious faith. Like Abraham Lincoln, my father did not claim that God was on his side; he prayed humbly that he was on God's side.