Short work again!
Archive for January 6, 2009
Tuesday Trivia: More quotes
1. “I should be sincerely sorry to see my neighbor’s children devoured by wolves.”
Solved by Melville (comment #1).
2. “Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today.”
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #2).
3. A: “I don’t want to die!”
B: “Neither do I, baby, but if I have to I’m gonna die last.”
Solved by Bill (comment #10).
4. “You don’t like it, do you _______, the storm? Show it your gun, why don’t you? If it doesn’t stop, shoot it. ”
Solved by Bill (comment #10).
5. “The way it works is, you do the thing you’re scared shitless of, and you get the courage after you do it, not before you do it.”
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #3).
6. “How many times have I told you I hated you and believed it in my heart? How many times have you said you were sick and tired of me; that we were all washed up? How many times have we had to fall in love all over again?”
Solved by Melville (comment #1).
7. “Look! I have one job on this lousy ship, it’s stupid, but I’m gonna do it! Okay?”
Solved by Tom Hilton (comment #4).
What I have to say about Israel
I have, for a long time, found it distressing that very liberal Jews are very hawkish about Israel. That they support things happening in Israel they would oppose were it Slobovia or Berzerkhistan. The pain of anti-Semitism is very real for us, and the history is very present. I think it is a mistake to interpret criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic, just as it is a mistake to interpret criticism of the U.S. government as unpatriotic.
And yet.
I was listening to progressive radio, the topic was the current Israeli war on the Gaza strip, and within a couple of minutes, I heard “If the Jews don’t like it, too bad,” and “Bloomberg is either a Jew or an American.”
So don’t even try to tell me that anti-Semitism isn’t a component of liberal opinion on the issue. Don’t even try.
