Let's go Pompano! ::shakes pom poms::

Ah, I love Buffistas, where I can get great perspectives on global events from on-the-ground sources. Truly love.

In other JewNews: M's mom flipped out like a mammal when she found out we DIDN'T build and light the menorah like we said. We asked M about 5 times. ZERO interest. Wanted to hang with dad. I took the candles with me to Iowa, asked some more. Zero interest.

And D got a screaming call about how we are trying to keep M from his religious roots because we have no religious affiliations. BITCH, YOU DIDN'T LIGHT THE CANDLE AND SAY THE PRAYERS THE 2ND NIGHT; I WAS THERE.

GRRRR. I am TOTALLY in support of respecting and participating in M's religious and cultural Jewish heritage, but I am agnostic and I refuse to force him into religious participation when he is not interested, simply to placate his mom. That would be rampant hypocrisy on my part, and Erin don't play that game.

Caught up!! Woo hoo. meara follows:

The kicker is that I'm supposed to do my trimester review, complete with self-rating, this week. HA HA HA.

Man, those always put me in a nasty spiral. Gah. As I said to a friend of fb, we your friends will hold the knowledge of your awesomeness until you can know it yourself again. Or, reading a bit further, what Erin said.

Nora, I'm reading that article. I'm thinking about forwarding it to my crew, they need to read it.

Connie, so sorry about your housemate's brother. That is awful.

Dana, lot of ~ma for you family. May this transition be as peaceful as possible.

Happy dateaversary, sj!!

StW texted me this morning, asking if I had NYE plans. He texted me first and I haven't answered him yet. I WIN.

Gris baby!!! So cute!!!!

Congrats to P-C's brother and SIL-to-be! I hope your parents pull their heads out of their asses and don't miss the wedding.

GO TEAM BRAVE LOVE.

Srsly, I need a "What Erin Said" shirt.

a black woman in the 60s who was tired after a day's work

IIRC, she wasn't just that - she had been trained in non-violent resistance.

Best of luck to DH's b-ball team, Laura!!

Oh, Erin. FFS. That woman needs to take a chill pill, or several. @@

My seester is here! Yesterday we browsed the fabulous stores on Magazine. Today we walked to the park, and then a neighbor invited himself over for breakfast. We're about to go hit an antique store and a lingerie store in the Quarter. And she just got back from the corner store, so I need to go.

Oh, Erin. I'm sorry you had to deal with this craziness, after you put so much into it.

IIRC, she wasn't just that - she had been trained in non-violent resistance.

Yes, she was the secretary for the Montgomery NAACP, although her action was that of a "private citizen," according to Wikipedia, which surprised me because I think I had her confused with Homer Plessy, who was specifically recruited to sit in a whites-only train car in order to kick off challenging segregation laws (which, in Plessy v. Ferguson, resulted in the 'separate but equal' doctrine).

Hey, Plessy's buried here! Cool.

yeah, Rosa Parks was an *activist* seamstress.(Not that activists don't get tired, too, as a half-assed one. But she knew she was starting stuff up.)

I think the feminist blog comment thread argument (it was on feministing several years ago) that made me roll my eyes the most was, for a post about a new book looking at Judaism and the Hebrew Bible from a feminist perspective, someone was arguing at length that it's impossible to look at the bible from a feminist perspective, because the bible is inherently anti-feminist, because G-d raped Mary.

Shir, I thought this editorial from a Jewish newspaper in New Jersey was interesting. [link] (For some context on this paper, it's for the suburbs of NYC, and will usually have some articles about Israeli politics, but the bulk of the paper is local news -- the cover article this week is about how Zumba, a new dance exercise class, is getting very popular at the Jewish Community Center, and there's another big article about an 11-year-old girl who's baking cookies and selling them to raise money for charity.)

because the bible is inherently anti-feminist, because G-d raped Mary.

Er, say what now? At least in all the Bible teaching I've heard, God ASKED, and she said yes! I mean, per Catholic teachings she was all special-born-without-sin blah blah, so I guess she didn't have a choice in THAT part, but...are we talking statutory here?

Er, say what now? At least in all the Bible teaching I've heard, God ASKED, and she said yes! I mean, per Catholic teachings she was all special-born-without-sin blah blah, so I guess she didn't have a choice in THAT part, but...are we talking statutory here?

I have no idea. I was trying not to get into that part of the argument, since I was arguing that the entire thing was irrelevant to a discussion of Judaism.