Definitely astronauts. Particularly if you’re talking about the airforce trained “Right stuff” guys from the 60s. They’ve got the reach, they’ve got the intelligence. And if you’re incorporating Captain Kirk, he’s got that snappy thing where he jumps at you with both feet and knocks both his opponent and himself down. So I agree with Angel, astronauts definitely beat cavemen.
Kathleen and I are still mulling over whether the Village People could beat up Metallica, however.
PAD
No fun puppets to be seen this week, and not a lot of smiles to go around.
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I have been telling myself over and over–in hopes that I’ll believe it, perhaps–that “The Passion” will not set off a wave of anti-Semitism. That although it will undoubtedly reinforce those who already hate Jews, it won’t take anyone who doesn’t hate Jews and turn them into anti-Semites. And that people will have the intelligence to realize that it’s just a movie with a singular point of view that is not automatically the truth just because Mel says so.
Then Marc Foxx sent me the following e-mail, forwarded from Robert Seltzer of the American Jewish Committee. It reads:
Subject: This is what we are concerned about….
My AJC Denver colleague reports that outside a church there stands a new, large sign which reads:
The Jews Killed Jesus. Settled.
Having seen the Gibson film, I am not surprised, tho it is shocking.
I have always believed, and still do, that the best response to free speech is more free speech. It is difficult to respond with more free speech, however, if people are coming at you with fists, knives and torches.
This has always been a country brimming with divisiveness, hatred and bigotry. But I don’t think it’s been this prevalent–or this sanctioned at the highest levels–in half a century.
God help you if you’re a marriage-minded Gay Jew.
PAD
For a while there she seemed to be keeping food down to the degree that the hospital was getting ready to discharge her…right up until she discharged all the food in her stomach at 9 AM today.
Understand that for the last two days Beth has been saying, “Why not do a GI workup?” while the doctors have been insisting that her condition is viral. So this morning they said to Beth, “You know, we think it would be wise if we did a GI workup on her.” She practically had to bite her tongue not to say, “About freakin’ time!”
I mentioned to Beth that between the website and private e-mails, I’ve gotten at least six diagnoses of what’s wrong. She suggested I start a pool. I told her she had to be kidding. She said no, she was serious. Again I said she was kidding. She said no, she really wasn’t kidding.
So okay.
Little girl, one year old, not keeping anything down. Disposition is okay, eats eagerly, but then barfs stuff up until the stomach is empty. No fever, and still has bowel movements. Not the first time she’s had unexplained bouts of vomiting, but certainly the most prolonged.
Diagnosis?
Beth says once she knows, she’ll tell me and I should tell you. In the meantime, all you GI Joes and Janes out there…go to it.
PAD
Okay. We’re almost current here at the Round-up as we cover several week’s worth of Charmed and West Wing, and last week’s episode of Smallville. Plus the best single line in a sitcom all year, just as a bonus. Yeeeha.
I don’t understand how anyone–including Bush–can advocate a ban on gay marriage. And Kerry’s no different. “Let’s have civil unions instead.” Because separate but equal is a time honored tradition in bias, and apparently gays are the new Negros.
How can anyone claim they are compassionate and deny people in love?
How cany anyone claim they advocate less government interference in the lives of Americans and yet support the concept of laws banning what two consenting adults may do that hurts nothing and no one?
And for me, most dámņìņg of all…how can anyone remotely pretend that there is a separation of church and state in this country when the government is endeavoring to tell religious institutions what they can and cannot do? It is not remotely analogous to a state removing the responsibility for a gravely ill child from Christian Scientist parents because they’re hoping prayer might save their child when the doctors know medicine or an operation surely will. This is the Federal government telling every religion in the country, “We don’t care what you believe: This offends our sensibilities, and we will stop you.”
You’ve heard of the War on drugs? The war on terrorism? Congratulations and welcome to the War on Love.
PAD
That’s how my sister, Beth, explained it to her concerned little daughter, Sarah. Sarah’s baby sister, Emma, had a “boo boo in her tummy,” and that’s why Emma is in the hospital, and why her mommy has to go be with her now for days on end.
In a more adult way of phrasing it…my little niece is distressingly ill. Checked in at the Children’s Hospital in Hartford, CT, she has been vomiting up everything that goes into her stomach for several days now. They’ve had her on an IV drip to keep her hydrated, but she hasn’t been keeping down more than two ounces of fluid an hour. And since she’s an infant and the veins in her arms weren’t big enough, they had to put the IV tube in her foot…except she wound up kicking it out and now her foot’s swelled up so that’s no good, and she just kicked it out of the other one.
I dunno. I’m not a big believer in the collective power of prayer, but on the other hand, I’m not above seeking any resource at this point.
PAD
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