My working theory is that hatred of Jews is mostly because they won't stop busting the grade curve
by the way, can we stop using the watered-down, euphemistic "antisemitism"? Call it what it is, Jew hatred.
I suppose "antisemitism" sorta fits when we're talking about an elite college or country club with funky rules to limit the number of Jews on campus / putting green. But now we're talking about people driven to violent, car-crashing rage by a Star of David.
There are entire NYC hospital wards filled with little old Chinese ladies with their jaws broken by impromptu street activists
For the record I am neither Jewish or Asian, I'm an atheist, raised Roman Catholic on an Iowa corn farm, who had no significant interaction with Jews or Asians until college. I simply know enough about history to understand what Jew hatred leads to.
I was perhaps too glib to ascribe Jew hatred to academic envy. There are also people who hate Jews because they blame them for sending repo men to take the big screen from their doublewide
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When you're out tearing down terrorist hostage posters for college extra credit and somebody starts filming
They're like deer in the headlights, and their only reflex is to pull out their own cell phones like "uh, um, you can't shame me! I... uhm... I'm gonna shame you for shaming me!" While trying to shield their own faces
The European mind cannot comprehend that the largest European soccer stadium would be the 9th largest American college football stadium
In my experience, major college football is the one single thing in this country that is absolutely guaranteed to blow a European's mind
Not even remotely true. The U of Iowa, as a typical example, has a $5.34 billion FY2023 budget. Its FY2023 budget (all sports) is $151 million, all self funded by sports revenue (media rights, tickets, merchandise).
I've been thinking a lot lately about the Roman Empire, especially those vomitoriums
*I of course mean "vomitoria," thank you spellcheck
I admit I was a bit disappointed to find out "vomitorium" is what they called a stadium exit, not a convenient public building for post-orgy/feast/bacchanal puking
I am at MOMA. Did you hear me, motherfucker? MOMA. You better get back to me before I start browsing the gift shop, or there will be HELL to pay
Well, apparently you chose to deliberately ignore my repeated warnings, because now I'm in line for the cashier at the MoMA gift shop, with my Roy Lichtenstein jigsaw puzzle, with no email updates. I assume because bad cell coverage so I will extend your deadline 1 hour.
Today's #DavesCarIDService salutes pioneering motorcycle sisters Augusta and Adeline Van Buren, who arrived in Los Angeles Sept 8, 1916 after a 60 day, 5k mile trip from Brooklyn NY aboard 1916 Indian Power Pluses. Here greeted in LA by silent film starlet Anita King,
It was quite a road trip, including a jaunt up Pike's Peak (the first women to do so in a motorized vehicle), getting saved by a prospector after getting lost in the Utah desert and running out of water, and an epilog journey to Tijuana. During the trip they were arrested several times, not for speeding but for wearing men's clothes.
Addie & Gussie, as the were known to friends, were descendants of 8th US president Martin Van Buren and wealthy suffragettes. They were part of the "Preparedness Movement" in the US prior to WW1. The trip was meant to demonstrate that women could serve in military roles, such as motorcycle dispatchers, if called upon.
Later in life Gussie became a pilot and member of Amelia Earhart's Ninety-Nines, while Addie earned a law degree from NYU. While a pioneering duo, they were only the 2nd and 3rd women to complete a transcontinental motorcycle ride; the first was Effie Hotchkiss on a Harley 11F in 1915, with her mom Avis in a sidecar.
Motoring is an endless source of fun history, and as always I welcome you to share some of your own family's. To get in line for an ID on a mystery car from your family archives, follow the simple directions - and remember this is a NO POLITICS zone.