In my college class in Islamic Studies, our final exam was one question: “Explain why the End of History is wrong.” I am grateful every day for that class, and specifically for that lens. Like a giant spoiler for the last decade or so though.
Well, what do you expect as a woke leftist hippie scholar working at (checks bio) the American Enterprise Institute and serving as (looks again) the Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress?
Speedy recovery to Aviv. This is the story of the West Bank in a nutshell: on one side you have the pogromchiks, police, and the army. On the other, the local population and a few righteous activists. If there’s justice- let it reveal itself immediately.
My father (UVa basketball alum 76-79) is not on this app, and for that we should all give devout thanks. His emotional wellbeing rises and falls with their win/loss ratio. It gets intense.
THIS EXPLAINS SO MUCH.
Anti-sports betting (and gambling generally) is a potential plank of the left coalition. Like alcohol pre-prohibition, it is a disproportionately male vice but overwhelmingly harming the women and children in their lives.
I do not think that conflating the Jewish people and the Jewish state is responsible at this juncture.
León Ferrari, La Civilización Occidental y Cristiana, 1965 (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Why is every tech ceo the villain from the Lorax
One of the downsides of seeing other people as chess pieces you get to manipulate is that you miss the extremely obvious things those other people are going to do to you.
See, this is what a solid W&M education achieves! 😊
Henceforth, Children’s Tylenol shall be known as “Pain and Fear Medicine”.
Youngest kid is sick. Eldest kid is v eager to help, asked if he should go get the medicine (kid’s Tylenol). I told him where it was—he ran back: “is it the pain and fear one?” “the WHAT?!” He brought me the bottle, which says “Pain and Fever” in large letters.
Sunday's gospel has big Admiral Akbar "It's a trap" energy, so preachers, edit/write with an eye out for ableism and anti-Jewishness. ⚓
I know this community very well. The Shenandoah club the Temple Israel statement refers to as providing food and shelter during this attack is the club established by Iraqi Chaldeans. This is really beautiful interfaith solidarity in action.
Huge relief to hear nobody was lost.
*SUSPECT AT LARGE AFTER ATTACK ON A MICHIGAN SYNAGOGUE: AP
*NO DEATHS AFTER ATTACK ON MICHIGAN SYNAGOGUE: AP
I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.
Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.
The 25th is never happening.
For those wanting to know more about Iran and voices from inside the country (rather than the fash-y monarchists outside), Naghmeh Sohrabi has been translating pieces from folks inside on her blog:
truethings.naghmehs.com
THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN SAYING.
We’ve now entered the next phase of Intro to War Criming: First you do the Criming, then you declare no, you couldn’t possibly have done the Criming. Next you say “well, we had to do the criming, bc the bad guys were hiding there, in a crime of their own!”
You cannot just kill the leaders of another religion because it and they are abhorent to you. You cannot just murder whoever gets selected next to lead a religious movement. You cannot just murder the survivors of your previous massacre who vote on new leadership for their religious community.
tidal.com/track/580850...
Quite literally. This is Roman soldiers throwing dice for the clothes of dying prisoners-stuff.
Oh no. Please no. Anything but that.
Yessssss. Join the cult of the yarn snobs! Swaddle your loved ones in cashmere and merino that is amazingly soft and lovely and then rant about how it came from this one heritage breed of endangered sheep and the proceeds go to feed starving children and defeat fascism!!
They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.
They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.
This is one of the curlers on the USA Paralympic curling team and I told him today that he should post about his Paralympic experience on BlueSky because people on BlueSky get very excited whenever anybody doing anything cool in the world posts through it on BlueSky instead of other websites
All of this. Despite the OTT rhetoric at times, most of Jesus’ debates with the Pharisees make the most sense if you read them alongside other rabbinical debates of the time.
Re:LRT—I mentioned the other day the way passive voice in our media shapes our thinking. Like the way we envision the Middle East as just inherently dangerous without stopping to consider why. Lava pits? Tidal waves? Specific conflicts occurring for
Specific reasons?
