Justice rarely achieves this level of poetry.

After my mother's genealogy research, looks like Wilhelm I, King of Prussia!

There’s a word applied to would-be monarchs that we should adopt: “pretender”, as in “Trump is the pretender to the presidency”.

Merav: so there's a Sabatean heresy for Tu b'Shevat I just learned about. Chris: Avocado?

As an RF/ELINT nerd, this is very clever and cool.

OK, so, if an online seminar is a webinar, does that mean a divinity school that offers an online program is a webinary?

Ah, the novel coronavirus, so called because it's very long and broken up into chapters.

“The Russian FSB were suppose to bribe the Ukraine military but due to corruption they pocketed the billions because they didn’t think Putin was that dumb to ever invade Ukraine, and now Russia is losing the war” is the craziest headline. thelowdownblog.com/2022/03/is-put…

First the crazies ruined the letter "Q", now the Russians have done the same to "Z". I worry they're going after the entire alphabet in order of Scrabble tile value.

Update to golem technology: if you sew אמת into the headband of the hat it's much safer. CF: Frosty the Snowman and Jeff from Today's Special.

I am literally speechless. Qualified immunity exists because of a CLERICAL ERROR?!

The upshot is that the community has TEN DAYS to raise almodt $200K to recover their synagogue. Y'all, I need your help to spread this far and wide: gofundme.com/f/help-las-veg….

Here's a random little story I've probably told before, but for some reason I thought of it again, so why not. It happened maybe 15 years ago at the Bangor Mall Cinemas, a multiplex movie theater with which I know at least one of you is familiar.

Old Lang Sign...

Why Not Mars (Idle Words) – “Fourth graders writing to Santa make a stronger case for an X-Box than NASA has been able to put together for a Mars landing.” idlewords.com/2023/1/why_not…

North Central People Express

Did "salary" really come from Roman soldiers paid in salt (or given special "salt pay" to buy it)? This post makes a pretty devastating case against. 1) It's hard to prove a negative, but he says there is simply no classical source for this whatsoever. kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2017/01/salt-a…

distant (etymological) relatives: christ and grimace 💜

although called “Count” Dracula, no such honorific was used in any of the centuries Dracula was operating in Transylvania. As he himself says, he is “Boyar”, one of the aristocrats of the region. He also frequently signs his letters as “-D.” THIS MFER’S NAME IS BOYAR D.

Quote of the week (so far)...having given a description of the iconic Vickers Machine Gun and its characteristics. Feeling satisfied with my explanation, I paused to take questions. A 9 year old member of the group asked, "Why does the Vicar need a Machine Gun?"