Education Forum Goes Off the Rails

[Mark Ulrik]

I’d be surprised if the forum doesn’t re‑emerge within a few days, given that Andrew Iler has reported locating Gordon (with help from a professional people‑tracking service) and that Gordon has indicated he’s willing to help.

[Benjamin Cole]

Heavens to Murgatroy!

Maybe the EF-JFKA will rise again, not quite like a phoenix...more like the way bodies do, a few days after drowning?

[Lance Payette]

Maybe the EF-JFKA will rise again, not quite like a phoenix...more like the way bodies do, a few days after drowning?

I.e., bloated by gas-producing bacteria that feed on internal tissues? Yes, that sounds about right. Let's take this a step further and identify some of the gas-producing bacteria by name, shall we?

Actually, I've hardly ever enjoyed a soap opera more than the last month or so of "Days of Our Ed Forum Lives" ("Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our Ed Forum lives.")

(Yet another Soviet anecdote: I was too old to watch "Santa Barbara," which aired from 1984 to 1993, but my wife tells me it was wildly popular in the USSR. So popular that even today, if a situation becomes ridiculously messy and complex, everyone knows what you mean if you roll your eyes and say "Oh, my god, Santa Barbara." Within three minutes of entering Minsk in 2007, I was surprised to see a huge billboard advertising "House MD" with Hugh Laurie. Another hoot was watching old episodes of "Bewitched" in Russian.)

[Kevin Balch]

OK, but it is being used precisely like racism because of the underlying myth of the Jews as "Christ killers." Otherwise, the visceral hatred of the Jews is inexplicable. People don't just adopt antisemitic attitudes out of thin air. There is no comparable racist-like hatred of Egyptians or other cultures because they weren't "Christ killers." As I stated, that myth has now snowballed where people who care little or nothing about Jesus are antisemitic and really can't tell you why. (As an historical document, the Bible is not a fairy tale; it holds up well insofar as it describes the history of the periods in which it was written.)

The “antisemitism” preceded the Christ killing fairy tale. And it also happens in non-Christian countries which are now banning Israeli tourists for reasons nothing to do with the death of Christ. Thailand has had major problems with them. How the hell do you piss off Buddhists? Yet they managed to do so.

Like the racism card, the antisemitism card has been used so often that its effectiveness is disappearing.