It has been brought to my attention that the Goldstone Report has near god-like (Satan-like?) power. Behold: It made a man shoot people in a synagogue, just yesterday! The Anti-Defamation League on Thursday expressed “deep concern” over a shooting at a Los Angeles synagogue earlier in the day in which two people were wounded…. Likud [...]
All posts for the month October, 2009
Oh, for the love of Moses!
Posted by emilylhauser on October 30, 2009
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/oh-for-the-love-of-moses/
You know you’re in trouble when.
Here’s how to know you’re in trouble: When Hamas sounds more reasonable than you do. I am no fan of Hamas. I have a number of reasons for my lack of affection, not least the fact that on more than one occasion, one of their bombers could very easily have killed me. Then there’s the [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on October 29, 2009
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/you-know-youre-in-trouble-when/
Good stuff: The Road to Shambala.
I’m working on something — Something Serious — that I hope to post a little later, but it has come to my attention that a certain special someone (you know who you are, Special Someone!) bears a striking resemblance to a late-60s/mid-70s crooner. In honor of Special Someone, I hearby declare In My Head’s first [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on October 29, 2009
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/good-stuff-the-road-to-shambala/
Good stuff: Life as Biff.
I am not usually a fan of stand-up comedy in song. I like my jokes in spoken-word form. But this (with The Guy Who Played Biff in Back to the Future, Tom Wilson) is just stinkin’ funny! (Thanks to, of all places, Cake Wrecks! CW blogger extraordinaire Jen referenced Biff last week, and I honestly [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on October 27, 2009
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/good-stuff-life-as-biff/
The banality of horror.
I was on a bus, or maybe in a taxi. I was on my way to work. Thinking of the day ahead, or, more likely, not thinking at all. Then, that voice on the radio: A suicide bomber had just exploded himself, a few blocks from my apartment, on a bus I rode so frequently [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on October 26, 2009
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/the-banality-of-horror/
J Street update.
I said yesterday that I would like people to be open to surprises when discussing Israel/Palestine — and then I was, myself, surprised! I don’t know how I missed this, but J Street got a hell of a letter on Wednesday from Tzipi Livni, former Israeli Foreign Minister and head of the Israeli opposition. Livni [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on October 23, 2009
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/j-street-update/
Smart words from annoying people.
For good or ill, I am a person who collects quotes. For years, my locker, then my dorm room, then my cork board grew increasingly crowded with the wisdom of others. H.L. Mencken moved across the ocean with me and back ( “We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on October 23, 2009
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/smart-words-from-annoying-people/
Goldstone, J Street, and xkcd.
A friend noticed something odd: I haven’t used this space to address the Goldstone Report (other than really ineffectually, here). It is at least as odd, I imagine, that I have also not addressed the upcoming J Street conference, and the smear campaign against J Street and its supporters (which I number myself among). To [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on October 22, 2009
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/goldstone-j-street-and-xkcd/
Think of the children.
You know what the world needs? Fewer kids growing up scared and alone. Honestly. If we were to make that a real priority in our social struggles, I think that half of our troubles would fall away in a generation or two. And you know what would really help with that? Less shame. When kids [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on October 21, 2009
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/think-of-the-children/
Good stuff: To tide you over.
I’m working on something, it’s not done, it might be done tonight, it might not, but in the meantime, here is a lovely speech given by a man in Maine, back in April, about marriage rights. Fair warning: You might want a hanky! (Also, if you’re in Maine or near Maine, have some money to [...]
Posted by emilylhauser on October 20, 2009
http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/good-stuff-to-tide-you-over/
