Just one question, who will break the news to SIF.

Thor As Woman: Marvel Introduces First Female Thor In New Comic Series | Variety



But still blond.

No end of fun can be had with this...

Certainly beats taking your AR15 to the restaurant.

U.S. DARPA researchers announce the self-guided bullet

The agency that brought you the Internet has created a self-guided bullet

www.computerworld.com

The
government's military research agency, DARPA, says it has demonstrated a
bullet capable of locking onto a moving target from up to a mile away.

An interesting position to consider

The Daily Beast article Why Progressives Shouldn’t Support Public Workers Unions - The Daily Beast

by Dmitri Mehlhorn, is worth considering.



I think it points to a problem with unions, which is even deeper.



I can't think of a better way to say this, but a lack of 'class consiousness' and analysis.



The sort of 'business unionism' typical of the US (though by no means exclusive to it) sees a union as only a means of increasing the economic standing of its (the union's) current members.  



This is goal seems to be pursued regardless of the effect this has on other workers -- either in other industries, or those who will want to work in the same jobs in the future.



This is, of course, a classically 'capitalist' position.  It also results in short horizon thinking, an unwillingness to participate in management decision making, and -- in the end -- the reduction of unions in the economy to 'merely' a resource cost.



The history of workers organizations, guilds, and clubs (going back to Rome if you want) shows a distressing tendency for them to become irrelevant, protecting a smaller and smaller coterie of members.



While I am fairly sure the 'solution' proposed in the article is not useful, the question if raises is not a bad one at all.

Not a great idea

This article on the Forward website,Jewish Wedding Symbolizes Revival in Poland City of Wroclaw – Forward.com, is supposed to be a feel good article.

I am sorry that I will not feel that way. I see them as glorifying a mistake. 

It is a fantasy that we can restore something of Jewish life to Eastern Europe.  Understanding the Holocaust as an aberration, is not supported by history.  (Communism is an aberration, the anti-semitism there was part of a calibrated policy, not a popular sport.)


We have been the other a long time in Europe, and still are: just look at the polling (Attitudes Toward Jews in Ten European Countries).  This even in countries (like Spain, Poland, and Greece) with negligible Jewish population: a new invention anti-semitism without Jews.

Anti-semitism without Jews, that I can live with. I cannot be happy by creating new hostages.