Happy Belated Birthday, GC!

The best argument for Israel that I can see, from that sort of perspective, is looking at the number of countries that wouldn't take in Jewish refugees

My knowledge of Jewish history is basically nonexistent, but are there many of those anymore? What would happen if Jews who came to Israel after WWII tried to go back to their countries of origin? (I understand that being Jewish in 1948 Germany would have been, at best, deeply uncomfortable, though I'm not sure even that is an argument for a country in 2005.)

I'm neither pro or anti-Israel, but I am terribly saddened that people have been killing each other over a piece of desert the size of New Jersey for 2000 years. I can't believe *any* god anyone should believe in would want that part of it.

WASHINGTON - Gay men's brains respond differently from those of heterosexual males when exposed to a sexual stimulus, researchers have found. The homosexual men's brains responded more like those of women when the men sniffed a chemical from the male hormone testosterone.

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It irks me that you have to read 3/4 of the article before they mention that the women in the study were heterosexual.

But the filename "homosexual_brains" is giving me amusing zombie thoughts, so it balances out.

The lesbian data is being finalized, plus there's another study with data on gay women.

My knowledge of Jewish history is basically nonexistent, but are there many of those anymore? What would happen if Jews who came to Israel after WWII tried to go back to their countries of origin? (I understand that being Jewish in 1948 Germany would have been, at best, deeply uncomfortable, though I'm not sure even that is an argument for a country in 2005.)

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by the first question. As for your second, after WWII, a whole lot of European Jews (mostly Eastern European) were in DP camps, since no one could agree on which of the Allied countries should take them in, and the British had really tight quotas on Jewish immigration to Palestine. There really wasn't anywhere for them to go.

t edit: and also, as I said, I'm not even really sure that that argument is the best one to make. I don't really think that arguing about Israel's founding is neccesarily the best way to get to solutions to today's problems.

Quick shallow fashion dithering question: I'm going to see Rasputina tonight. Should I wear black ringlet hair falls, or black dreadlock hair falls (with a mini top hat, black skirt, petticoats, corset, and high-collared blouse)?

Good luck, vw!

Put me in the ringlets corner.

Good luck, vw!

I had semi-good job news today. One of the places I applied to teach this summer called me back for a phone interview. I think that went pretty well, and she said that the only thing holding her back from hiring me is that they want someone who can work starting with their first session, and I can only start the second, but she said that she'd give me a call back once they can figure out the scheduling a little bit better.