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Why appeasement didn’t work in the 1930’s, and it doesn’t work any better now. From An Unsealed Room – Allison Kaplan Sommer That is what these three-plus years of Intifada have done to the Israeli public. They see that when we try to make nice and compromise we get terror attacks. And when we’re tough … Continue reading The man on the street, in Jerusalem
Latin class. Grades 7 through 9, with Mr. B, who (we believed at the time) had gotten thrown out of the Jesuits for being too mean. Ah those were the days… two rows of our class’s best and brightest. I sat in the front row. Janet hid back in the corner by the pencil sharpener. … Continue reading High school flashback
Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behavior of numbers. Just as Einstein observed that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer’s movement in space, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer’s movement in time, so it is now realized that numbers are … Continue reading qotd, belatedly
From This Normal Life I was holding the baby when we heard it. The rest follows, since Brian doesn’t have a good archiving system yet, and this story should be preserved.
white pebble 