MR Issues Corrections and Clarifications
After dealing with our inbox this morning (now: afternoon), we offer the following corrections and/or clarifications about this week's blog posts:
(1) Contrary to the implication that we may have made in this post, we do not think that Orthodox Jews will refuse to vote if a poll worker is menstruating. If a poll worker is menstruating on Shabbat, of course, we still maintain that Orthodox Jews will refuse to vote. But that's for a totally different reason, and we were inappropriate to imply that the blog title "How Orthodox Jews should vote" indicates otherwise. The writer, on the other hand, support Casey. So now there are two Jbloggers who you can blame when a 2007 Democratic Senate passes a nonbinding resolution that says "we don't know what you're talking about - we think the State Department is doing a great job!"
(2) Contrary to the implication in this follow-up post, AnnieGetYour from Jewbiquitous probably does not - in our words - think that "Jewish bloggers aren't allowed to have fun like everyone else on the blogosphere". If she does, she probably has better reasons than - again our words - "some transliterated Hebrew". Nonetheless, we will defend the part where we implied that Anne from Boker Tov, Boulder! linked a video so bad that it makes people want to go out and club baby seals. Sorry, it's true - we've seen studies on this.
(3) We certainly did not say that liberals who think that Evangelical Christians support Israel for apocalyptic reasons are "dumber than a sack of wet hair". We do think that they're quite wrong though.
(4) Contrary to the implication in yesterday's (J)Blog Roundup, workers at the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles do not kill their pets. At least not until they've made their pets sit for 3 hours in the waiting room, called them up to the only open window, given them several totally unnecessary forms to fill out, forced them to wait twenty more minutes after finishing the forms, and then finally told them that nothing can be done right now because it's a Thursday in Israel and - since Wednesday was a holiday - no one will be at work till Sunday. So given the time zone change and the fact the Consulate isn't open on weekends, the forms won't get faxed to Tel Aviv until Tuesday.
(5) Contrary to the implication in this post, the good people at Vital Perspective do not blog just to one-up other (J)Bloggers. We don't even know how someone could fail to notice that we were joking, given the description of their posts as "clearer, more detailed, more accurate, and more nuanced". Sometimes we wonder about some of our readers.
(6) For about a month we have been getting progressively angrier about a woman that we've been calling "Karen Anderson", first when she made some of the worst arguments ever in excuse of jihadism and then when got dismantled by Daled Amos. We've been calling this woman "Karen Anderson" because we are very, very stupid. The woman we've been calling "the most insipid journalism in the world" is actually named Karen Armstrong (h/t to SoccerDad for this). Karen Anderson is the animal telepath who helped Demi Moore contact her lost dog, and we don't know anything about her positions re the war against political Islam.
What's that you ask? How many emails did we field this morning? A couple.
UPDATE: We give up. Email from How Orthodox Jews should Vote:
I think you may have to correct your correction. I do not support Casey. My blog, as of now, is collecting information from candidates as to why they feel jews should vote for them.
Looks like Lynn is back on her own. Unless we're misreading the email. Which is likely, given that we've been having trouble lately with things like, oh, the names of authors.
(1) Contrary to the implication that we may have made in this post, we do not think that Orthodox Jews will refuse to vote if a poll worker is menstruating. If a poll worker is menstruating on Shabbat, of course, we still maintain that Orthodox Jews will refuse to vote. But that's for a totally different reason, and we were inappropriate to imply that the blog title "How Orthodox Jews should vote" indicates otherwise. The writer, on the other hand, support Casey. So now there are two Jbloggers who you can blame when a 2007 Democratic Senate passes a nonbinding resolution that says "we don't know what you're talking about - we think the State Department is doing a great job!"
(2) Contrary to the implication in this follow-up post, AnnieGetYour from Jewbiquitous probably does not - in our words - think that "Jewish bloggers aren't allowed to have fun like everyone else on the blogosphere". If she does, she probably has better reasons than - again our words - "some transliterated Hebrew". Nonetheless, we will defend the part where we implied that Anne from Boker Tov, Boulder! linked a video so bad that it makes people want to go out and club baby seals. Sorry, it's true - we've seen studies on this.
(3) We certainly did not say that liberals who think that Evangelical Christians support Israel for apocalyptic reasons are "dumber than a sack of wet hair". We do think that they're quite wrong though.
(4) Contrary to the implication in yesterday's (J)Blog Roundup, workers at the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles do not kill their pets. At least not until they've made their pets sit for 3 hours in the waiting room, called them up to the only open window, given them several totally unnecessary forms to fill out, forced them to wait twenty more minutes after finishing the forms, and then finally told them that nothing can be done right now because it's a Thursday in Israel and - since Wednesday was a holiday - no one will be at work till Sunday. So given the time zone change and the fact the Consulate isn't open on weekends, the forms won't get faxed to Tel Aviv until Tuesday.
(5) Contrary to the implication in this post, the good people at Vital Perspective do not blog just to one-up other (J)Bloggers. We don't even know how someone could fail to notice that we were joking, given the description of their posts as "clearer, more detailed, more accurate, and more nuanced". Sometimes we wonder about some of our readers.
(6) For about a month we have been getting progressively angrier about a woman that we've been calling "Karen Anderson", first when she made some of the worst arguments ever in excuse of jihadism and then when got dismantled by Daled Amos. We've been calling this woman "Karen Anderson" because we are very, very stupid. The woman we've been calling "the most insipid journalism in the world" is actually named Karen Armstrong (h/t to SoccerDad for this). Karen Anderson is the animal telepath who helped Demi Moore contact her lost dog, and we don't know anything about her positions re the war against political Islam.
What's that you ask? How many emails did we field this morning? A couple.
UPDATE: We give up. Email from How Orthodox Jews should Vote:
I think you may have to correct your correction. I do not support Casey. My blog, as of now, is collecting information from candidates as to why they feel jews should vote for them.
Looks like Lynn is back on her own. Unless we're misreading the email. Which is likely, given that we've been having trouble lately with things like, oh, the names of authors.
