I'm blind; I'm deaf; I wanna...

...use my referee icon again!

I have my first two assignments this weekend, AR jobs in CCSL second division matches this Sunday. So I went out at lunchtime and got the kit I needed (shirts, shorts, socks, odds and ends). Including cards! :-) So no more misbehaving, or you get a caution! ;-)

don't call a spade a spade...

According to the Guardian

Danny Rubinstein, Arab affairs editor of Ha'aretz newspaper and a member of its editorial board, has landed himself in hot water with the British Zionist community. He had the temerity to say something outside Israel that can be read in his own newspaper and others quite regularly. At a UN conference on Palestinian human rights he called Israel an "apartheid state"

This goes hand in hand with a replayed episode of On Point that I heard last night on NPR, in which Abe Fox of the ADL compared Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer to Hitler and Stalin because they dared to describe the pro-Israel lobby in the US and point out that its actions don't always add up to good policy for the US...or even for Israel. Now, I've not yet been convinced that Tom Ashbrook is anything like a real journalist, and his handling of this show convinced me that he's not. How anyone can, with a straight face, pretend that Walt and Mearsheimer have said something new, revolutionary, or truly debateable is beyond me. But Ashbrook went even farther than that, by effectively supporting Fox and calling the two antisemitic. Totally irresponsible hatemongering in the guise of 'impartial' journalism. Impartial my arse.

I find it sad that, once again, those who want to defend the indefensible are trying to hide behind charges of racism. Fox's performance was worthy of Marion Barry in his prime, but who was Ashbrook trying to be? Tony Snow?

damn...

I just mailed a friend a link to the listing for our house, and I stopped to look at the pictures.

I love that house.

I love the friends I've shared it with.

It makes me sad to see it listed like that, a place that's going to be someone else's home, a place that isn't *my* home any more.

But, damn, it does look good! Mel took some excellent photos for the slide show!

And I'm glad to have had the chance to make all the memories I have of it. I do have a terrifically nice place to live now, with someone I adore, and the prospect of more places to live and more memories to create.

But it doesn't stop me being sad at saying goodbye...