Nick Meo, Telegraph – Jews leave Swedish city after sharp rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes (H/T Normblog) It’s all perfectly natural. I was unhappy about Tibet, so I attacked Chinese on the streets of Los Angeles. Christian Tau, Z-Word Blog – The Anti-Jewish Riots in Oslo Are we picking up a pattern here? Jonathan Chait, […]
The Open Mind V: the Language of Black and White
Ah, siddown. Holster your resentments. I’m not talking about that black and white. I’m referring to the fallacy. (Murmer, murmer, grumble, murmer.) Sometimes labeled, parthenogenetically, the fallacy of bifurcation, more commonly known as the either/or fallacy, this form of thinking also sports the “black and white fallacy” moniker. You get the idea. There are only […]
More Montevideo
This delayed contribution of student photos from Uruguay comes from Michaela Reisinger, a fourth-generation pharmacist from Austria. Nearly everyone else on this travel photo workshop had been on multiple trips with Julia (and me), but Michaela was new. Smart, witty, and gregarious, a lover of good food and drink, she instantly became part of the […]
Misreading the Adversary: an Open Mind Prequel
I’ve been oppressively busy since the return from Buenos Aires and hadn’t a clue what I might have time to post about today. Yesterday, because the Jewel is beyond oppressively busy with some shindig she’s hosting, project ally and friend S drove me down to San Diego to collect Obelisk from its repair facility. (We’ve […]
That’s What They Think, Friday 2/19/2010
The Long War Journal – All Headlines While conservative critics are gazing in the mirror, and the others are looking elsewhere, the Obama administration is waging real war. Adam Holland – Ron Paul website mourns anti-Semitic author A new crack sprouts in Paul’s pot’s spout. Barry Rubin, GLORIA Center – Why Isn’t There Peace? One […]