Welsh Rabid. Britain selected Welshman Rowan Williams as the next Archbishop of Canterbury. Williams' profile in the New York Times describes him as having a "formidable intellect". At the same time the article implies that he thinks Donald Duck is a bigger threat to mankind than Saddam Hussein is. He also believes the tyrant-laden United Nations has greater moral authority than mere democratically elected governments, such as the one in the United States. Or the one in Britain that just signed off on his sinecure.
Anti-Economics: Joanne Jacobs has another winner in her Tech Central Station piece on the dismal state of economics education in public high schools
Teachers do not work in enterprises where it's necessary to satisfy the customer or go out of business. They belong to a powerful union, which sees for-profit as synonymous with for-evil. Every business is Enron. Like biblical literalists who want to teach creationism in biology class, liberal teachers want to teach social justice in lieu of supply and demand.This reminds me of a former girlfriend who had graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in "Ethnic Studies". She showed me one of her old term papers, which stated (but didn't substantiate) the claim that "Environmental racism is caused by a capitalist system that puts profits before people". The professor wrote "excellent!" next to that statement, and my friend earned an A for the paper and for the course, of course. And I doubt the professor ever stopped to consider the environmental devastation throughout the former Soviet bloc, which was caused by a Communist system which supposedly put people before profits.
| Blind German psychic Ulf Buck (L) feels the buttocks of a client during a session in his study room in the northern German village of Meldorf near Hamburg July 15, 2002. Clairvoyant Buck claims that people's backsides display lines like those on the palm of the hand, which can be read to reveal much about their character and destiny. REUTERS/Christian Charisius. (notice the menorah on the table) |  |
And while we're talking about buttocks, this just in from VentureWire News: "CYA Technologies, a developer of software that provides disaster recovery and data backup for businesses, said it has raised $2.5 million in the second tranche of its Series A round to close the round at $7.3 million."
Why are we to notice (thanks: I was looking elsewhere) the menorah?Is the psychic Jewish? And what does this mean? REUTERS/Christian Charisius.
?We each have a talent and he seems to have looked far and deep to discover his.
I have a cousin who's a really brilliant guy (guess it runs in the family), but he's a socialist. I love to talk politics with him, as I am equally far to the other side of the political spectrum. I imagine that we are equally blind to some facts that diminish the truth of our own vision of a better world. But you have to be really blind to not see that the more capitalist systems on this planet are the cleanest protectors of the environment.
I thing Dick Armey said it best last month when he said that liberals feel their politics, but they just don't think things through. The environmental devastation left by the Soviets, however, is there for all to see. The truth is out there, but there's none so blind as those who refuse to see.
Posted by: Michael Gersh on July 24, 2002 07:45 AMQ: What goes "OY! OY! OY! OY! OY! OY! OY! OY GEVALT!" ?
A: A blind man on the eighth day of Hannukah.
Posted by: Laurence Simon on July 24, 2002 08:01 AMThat is not a Menorah. It only has seven branches, although that does not distract from the hilarity of the whole thing.
Posted by: Moe on July 24, 2002 12:01 PMMoe - It certainly is a menorah. It is not the 9-candle hanukah menorah that you are probably thinking of. But it is a traditional 7 candle menorah. See: http://www.jewfaq.org/signs.htm#Menorah
Posted by: Stefan Sharkansky on July 24, 2002 12:09 PMI am fameliar with the idea that the Menorah in the temple had Seven branches. I only meant to point out that the Menorah in the picture is not the type that would be used by jews for Chanakuh. Again, This issue is detracting somewhat from the abject hilarity of the picture and story.
Posted by: Moe on July 24, 2002 01:00 PM