Yesterday all our troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they’re here to st – actually, that’s a fib and we apologize. Our troubles were front and center yesterday too.
Here’s hoping that you enjoy the roundup and the rest of your morning.
* AK Sommer all over the place. A PJM post on Katsav, an Israel21c article on Israeli tech, and a tech story from a more personal perspective at Israelity. But best of all: she’s going to start updating An Unsealed Room regularly again. The reasons that this is awesome are numerous, but mostly she just sounds different – more jaded but frantic suburban Israeli – when she’s on her home blog. Which means now we have to go back and put it back on the blogroll. Luckily, that won’t be a problem, since our laptop has learned to just kind of sigh and go to work whenever we hit “rebuild” in the MT backend.
* “Mr. Maher, this is the front desk. There’s someone named Meryl Yourish at the door to see you Also – here’s the weird thing – it looks like she’s got a bat that literally has your name physically carved into it. Yeah, I dunno either – you want me to let her up?”
* Gracie’s not out of the woods yet, but she’s getting better.
* Oh no. We just realized that we posted a statement pretty much shrugging off the Kerry thing as a botched joke, but this and this were posted over the last few days. We’re not saying we’re wrong. We’re just saying that it’s going to be a long morning.
* And as if that wasn’t bad enough, Stan clocked in this morning to smugly deprive us of the final couple of reasons we had to live.
* Richard Landes is a scholar. By all accounts, he’s a damn good scholar. Good scholars are by nature cautious and careful, making modest statements that can be justified (Juan Cole is an obvious exception, but that’s because what passes for scholarship in his field is unseemly ideological backpatting, so he never picked up academic habits). Anyway, Rich Landes – scholar, etc. So when he accuses Secretary of State Rice of cognitive egocentrism, that’s not very good for people who think that the State Department has a clue about a clue about anything.
* Rick Richman is similarly unamused by Secretary Rice. And when Rick Richman is unamused, he gets very terse and posts poll figures that make the source of his unamusement seem stupid.
* Alexandra of the eponymous All Things Beautiful on Secretary Rice’s sell out of Israel. PS – where does she get those pictures?
* Pamela on pimps and whores at Georgetown. We grabbed the URL and linked to it before we clicked through. We just figured it was going to be a Halloween photo gallery. But no. Just hypocritical leftist academic politics.
* Dave Bender has a podcast about the human toll of the disengagement. We’re not particularly partial to that kind of red meat. But the millions we spend on focus groups have conclusively demonstrated that there is a high statistical likelihood that you are.
* Then again, we’re here writing about how we’re not particularly enamored with Dave’s latest podcast. This distinguishes us from the Washington Post, which thinks that he rocks. VERY nice.
* This is no way for a young lady to speak.
* A while back we posted about Michael Marcus, a Karmiel resident and a UMich-Dearborn grad. Marcus is fighting the good (and, ioho futile) fight to keep his old campus from becoming a pro-jihadi swamp. The Michigan Journal has just published his letter critiquing the campus’s student governance system. So maybe we’re being a little too pessimistic. But we doubt ir. You can’t cheat demographics, and “radical” unfortunately seems to be a trait getting passed down from parents to children in Dearborn (and, for that matter, Orange County).
* Tsk tsk – little bit of a tiff over at NRO about Derb not voting. For the record: us not voting has little to do with sending any kind of message to the GOP (which they won’t hear because, uh, we live in CA and don’t matter). On the other hand, it has almost everything to do with visceral disgust. A pox on both their houses.
* On Tuesday we missed our first One Jerusalem conference call in just about forever. It sounds like it was really good. Figures.
* A service called Jewswire has just gone beta. It has something to do with pushing Judaism-related press releases live , but we can’t figure out exactly what. Not a good sign for a startup. Also: they need a new color scheme. Also: they need to tone down the MySpace-level shoving of ads into every available corner.
* We’re horrible investors. Just awful. Mostly because we buy like one or two stocks (hey, student budget) and so can’t really make up the commission margin. But it’s also because we make terrible picks. People who short-sell should pay us to buy stock so they can make a profit. And of all our stocks, one of the very few that’s actually in the green (eTrade color coding scheme) was JetBlue. So much for that.
* Steven Weiss seems to have really taken the whole blogs are about honesty thing to heart.
* As well as we can tell, we agree with every single word of this Dean Barnett essay on the what the tactic of forced outing reveals about the contemporary left.
* Let’s just all go live in the hills, nuke the whole damn planet, and start over. It’s so stupid and yet somehow still so infuriating.
* Carl is way too far right for our tastes. But his commitments do give him a certain drive to find the most absurd aspects of the miserable failure that is the collection of UN-supplied human shields in south Lebanon. Pics and tons more at Israellycool.
* Sheer brilliance over at Elder of Zion.
* We’re shocked that almost-too-liberal-to-pick-through-for-news LAist is opposing the California parental notification initiative. MR of course supports a nearly unlimited right to abortion, but only as a byproduct of our more general support for infanticide. Also on the LAist (and seriously, we can’t even begin to count the levels on which this is ironic and unreflexive)… anyway, also on the LAist, there’s the opinion that the entire country will rise up to impeach George Bush if the voters in Berkeley, CA choose to do so. Because apparently people will be so shocked that the residents of Berkeley hate the President that they’ll start rethinking their own support for the Commander in Chief.
* Daled Amos: Israel is THE place for Jewish innovation. Actually, that’s our bedroom. HEY-O.
* Jewlicious has a new site design up. Same center-left blogging, now with a new hottie logo.
* We think that SimplyJews’s Snoopy kind of has a crush on right-wing goddess Caroline Glick. It’s kind of cute.
* Toward the end of October, Smooth Stone asked if Al Qaeda was going to pull off an October surprise. No.
* SoccerDad is now also a ballet dad. And it sounds like his daughter is maybe 6 months away from establish a MySpace blog designed in various shades of grey and dedicated to describing how emo she is.
* Dave Schuler from The Glittering Eye has pretty much had it with having to keep the blogosphere informed about all the polls he’s been passing on.
Previously: (J)Blog Roundup – 2006-10-20, (J)Blog Roundup – 2006-10-19, (J)Blog Roundup – 2006-10-18
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