How Do You Jew

Newspeak, courtesy of Reuters. (Thank you, Andrew Sullivan.)

I had never heard of Mike Daisey before today, but I am a big fan now. Make sure you read the followup, too.

How about a New York couple taking cab to Arizona retirement to distract you from the Virginia Tech massacre.

I hang my head in condolence for the families of the dead and pray for a speedy and complete recovery for the wounded. The Hokies are a strong bunch.

Once again, BoingBoing provides good entertainment, not to mention edification.

It’ll be a while before my daughter can talk, so I was excited when I saw this on BoingBoing. Then I read the page and calmed down. First, I’d need to have WAY more electrical engineer tendencies to put this together. Second, the receiver has to be hooked up to a PC parallel port; the nearest PC to our bedroom is in the guest room, PAST Hadarya’s room, making this pointless except for data-gathering purposes, and I don’t really need that. Still, it’s a cool idea (no pun intended, really), and instructive in its own way.

The JPost tells us about Pelosi’s father and the Holocaust. I look forward to seeing good things from her and her colleagues in terms of foreign policy this term.

DVDDossier, which I never would have found were it not for Dave Zatz (and I have no idea how I found him), opens my eyes to this gem.

I and a few friends are Chipotle fans. Perhaps “fans” is not a strong enough word for our passion, actually, for here is what Jill wrote in response to Elissa’s note informing us of this most worthwhile fundraiser:

Uniting reading and burritos. Seriously, has there ever been anything more beautiful? A fresh dew drop on a rose petal at dawn. A newborn baby. A tear running down an old man’s weathered cheek as he reminisces about family lost. Burritos and literacy.

This is the coolest thing I have ever heard of.

We love hanging out with Jill, and you will too. Won’t you join us?

Thanks to Counting the Homer, I found out that this year’s Simpsons Treehouse of Horror (the Halloween special show) included this segment: