As we all know, Bill Belichek has transitioned
from football to quantum physics. It's hard to imagine too many going that
route but he has. Belichek, of course, was famous for attention to detail,
sub-detail, sub-sub-sub detail and so on.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Jews like me . . .
I have proposed a demonstration of Jews who oppose Benjamin Netanyahu's
appearance at Congress in March. Not talking the predictable kind of BDS anti-Zionist
cum anti-Semites (the Zionism equals racism crowd.)
Talking Jews like me, who want to say: go home Bibbi!
How dare you?
Jews like me who oppose the sick/sickening alliance of
rightwing republicans and rightwing
Israelis.
Jews like me who think the Israel lobby per se less
influential in the end than the republican pro-Israel contingent.
Jews like me who are aware of and fear resurgent anti-Semitism
but also fear the likes of Bibi Netnanyahu.
Jews like me who think Bibi had absolutely every right to
march in Paris but no right to butt in against Obama in the U.S. Congress.
***
I've reconsidered my previous idea and resolved it's far too
sane.
Better Jews like me hand out leaflets saying: We are authentic honest-to-goodness
Goyim who believe an Israeli war with Iran — Migod v. Bygod, Godamn v. Hotdamn, Gog v. Gag, Hotcha v.
Gotcha — will bring on the Rapture extra shnell (Yiddish for fast).
Come Bibi Come!
The Rapturati love you!
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Deflationgate: The Story Goes On . . .
Belichick denies any knowledge of deflated footballs. He privately
asserts that he knows more about football than God but individual footballs do
not merit his attention. He cares nothing for their fate. He doesn't touch them
and prefers not even to think about them. He's a sensitive guy underneath it
all and the very shape of a football makes him a bit queasy.
So when it comes to deflating footballs, he couldn't be more
innocent.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Deflation-gate: Belichick cum Cheney
Deflation-gate: did the Patriots deflate the
ball in their 45-7 rout of the Colts on Sunday or did they not? Forget ISIS, and
Hebdo. Forget Boka Haram and Teheran: that is the question.
Deflating the ball makes it easier to pass and
catch in cold wet weather. Is that why Tom Brady and his Pats mauled Andrew
Luck and his Colts?
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Thoughts about Richard Wagner . . .
I happened to tune into a recent PBS performance of Die
Walkure and got swept up in the ride of the Valkyries, along with the
conflicted condition of Wotan, who must sentence his beloved daughter, Brunhilde,
to punishment. This theme of gods entrapped by finitude, bad deals, gold, and
giants is intriguing. This is not monotheism we're talking about.
Are We at War?
On Tom Ashbrook today — WBUR, Friday, 1/16/15, On Point —
when the likes of Jack Beatty get to put their 2 cents in, I tune in. One of
the guests said in re no one high up in the United States showing at the massive
Paris march that it was meant to signify that we, the United States, are not at
war with terrorism. Terrorists of the sort that committed the Charlie Hebdon massacres
are best thought of as criminals. Let us not dignify their crazed criminal
activity as acts of war.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
I'm a French Jew . . .
A headline in today's Times (1/13/15) reads, "Fear on
Rise, Jews in France Weigh an Exit". That article goes on to detail how
many French Jews have decamped for Israel and how many more are likely to do
so. France, the piece specifies, "was the largest source of Jews moving to
Israel last year."
Thursday, January 8, 2015
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