Tikkun Olam

Had a lovely dinner with friends (fourth year in a row), with all the traditional dishes: smoked turkey (in apple wood) with green beans, sweet potato and carrot side dish, stuffing, cranberry-orange sauce (my D. H. made that one), and pumpkin and pecan pies for dessert.  I'm stuffed.  After dinner we played the hilarious game of Beyond Balderdash , which is the sequel to the original Balderdash, in which you think up creative word definitions and try to bluff the other players.  It can border on the hysterical. We actually lost track of time, and played for several hours.  I haven't laughed so hard in ages.  Sometimes, it's really therapeutic to get together with friends, and totally unwind.  I think we should do this once a week; ok, maybe once a month--certainly not wait until next Thanksgiving! I mean, try making up a definition for, say, this one: dactylomegaly .  Or how about graywacke ?  First make it up, and then click on the link....

Remember Comedy Central? The ones who censored South Park comic images of Muhammad last April (and in 2001 and 2006 --bet you didn't remember about those ) because they didn't want to offend the Muslims (who have this nasty little habit of going out and murdering people for insulting their religion)? Well, apparently--because of course the Jews won't do anything about it, right?--they think it's okay to put up a strange game on their website, called I.S.R.A.E.L. Attack! (hat tip: Daled Amos , and Honest Reporting ).  At first I was confused about this.  I could not believe that such blatant anti-Semitism could go past everyone and be put online, so I thought it might be something other than it is.  But I was wrong. The game refers to a character (the "Jew producer") who lied and didn't destroy some child-cartoon characters.  It then shows "I.S.R.A.E.L." (which stands for I ntelligent S mart R obot A nimation E raser L ady) coming to rect...