That is a key question - whether the nation-state is the primary global actor, or the ethnic group. If it’s the nation-state, then Wakanda has no obligations whatsoever. If it’s the ethnic group, then, a la Pan-Arab Nationalism, there is an obligation across borders, to wherever members of that ethnic group happen to…

I am reminded of the common right-wing 2nd amendment trope that if only the Jews in Germany were armed... something other than genocide would have happened. The author is right, that a reviled minority group, when heavily armed, becomes a dead, reviled minority group.

No, “Asian” and “American” are not equivalent. One is a ethnic, the other is national. Israel has Asian Israelis, African Israelis, Middle-Eastern Israelis (sure, call them Asian if you like) and European Israelis. Portman is Israeli (and American, I suppose). She isn’t Asian, even though she is a citizen of a country…

Re Woody, Dylan, Mia, etc. Everyone here should study the work of Elizabeth Loftus.

This is a great post. It’s cousin to how to take kids out to restaurants. We went to restaurants that my parents went to (in the 60s) and there was no kids menu, and no allowance for kids behaving like”kids”. We were encouraged to walk around and explore (and be well behaved) before dinner, but at the table we had to…

I am from NY and live in LA, both very expensive places. But that’s because they’re desirable - people want to live there. I’ve been to Oklahoma City. No offense, but it would have to be cheap.

And they achieve new heights in viscosity. It’s excellent diaphragm exercise to try sucking one of those babies through a straw.

This is a new thing - “types” of Christians associated with fast-food chains. Is it like a “lox ‘n’ bagels” Jew?

I’m not a Christian, and get hives around aggressive evangelism, but I think the verses are charming.

That’s a great formulation: “You are allowed to believe the best about the people who you care about and be wrong.”

Found the link!

Reminding everyone of the idiots at Investors Business Daily, and their “If Stephen Hawking were English, He’d be Dead Today!” article in 2009. Can’t ever let that one fade away; it’s too delicious.

I wonder what the JDL (Jewish Defense League) is up to these days? For all I know, they don’t mind folk like this because they want Jews to think that they are only safe in Israel. Sort of like what ISIS wants Muslims to think.

I agree completely. But kids today, with their purity tests...

I suspect you’re all right. They hate Jews as an American minority, but they love Jews far away, in their own (arguable) ethno-state, or at least theo-state (there are several ethnicities of Jews, but that’s a difficult topic, for Jews most of all). The end-times horseshit is icing on the cake, as it were, as is the…

I get your point... but as the child of a gen-you-wine refugee from the Nazis, I can say that few things frighten me more than a shouting mob of heavily armed goyim, even if they are buffoons. In fact, especially if they’re buffoonish, because then the good goyim don’t take them seriously, and think I’m crazy for…

1. The original post did not say that. Only about “emotional support animals”.

Made me laugh. Thanks.

When I needed it, I saw a therapist and I got meds from a psychiatrist. I did not depend on the latter for empathy, just the Rx; though, actually, he was perfectly nice, and did listen to me for the few minutes I was in his office. He would discuss my drugs, and take what I said as evidence of whether I needed more or…

I did not know that! Interesting. Of course, they don’t have a “subcontinental” entry on those forms. Anyway, since she is (obviously) being groomed as an eventual GOP presidential candidate (gaining those foreign policy credentials), I don’t mind anything that’s tossed at her. Even though she’s far from the worst…