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Comment on Plus ca change …* by Anne Gibert

Anne Gibert — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:11:23 +0000

As the Jews are people, so are those who persecuted them. And so are we. We are united as victims and as persecutors. WWW is right. What was done to the Jews is being done by them to the Palestinians. That terrible potential is in us all.

Comment on Plus ca change …* by Duchess

Duchess — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:10:20 +0000

Have you seen Anthony Julius’s new book Trials of the Diaspora: a history of antisematism in England?

Comment on Plus ca change …* by Ruth Pennebaker

Ruth Pennebaker — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:20:35 +0000

Fascinating list. Keep reading and reporting. We went to Dachau a few years ago when we were visiting Munich; amazingly, it’s a suburb of the city, listed on the train schedule as innocuously if its name were Pleasantville.

Comment on Plus ca change …* by wisewebwoman

wisewebwoman — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:12:50 +0000

I’m only to an 8 count on the reading front, Tessa, I must be the old head down once the unattended files are …..well you know what I mean.
These days what strikes me more and more is how Israel is repeating the eugenics of all they suffered in WW2 and ‘plus ca change’ rings in my head when I talk to my Palestinian friends. Not forgetting the positive spin the pimp-media puts on all of this….
PS I had some Jewish friends in my class in secondary school, all had “Irishized” their names and what was even funnier was the number of redheads amongst them. Miriam Kohl was “Maureen Coleman” for instance. Their parents had fled Hitler, I don’t know how they got into Ireland…

Comment on Plus ca change …* by JES

JES — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:37:04 +0000

Disgusting, isn’t it? Especially when you consider he’s probably drawing (probably very loud) defenders.

When people debate the value of free speech, they always cite downsides like victims’ rights, privacy concerns, etc. Left unsaid: the cost to a civil society of the credulousness of the ignorant.

Thanks for the reviews, btw. Of the three, I think I’d be most likely to spring for the Scipio title, but I was happy to learn of the other two!

Comment on So many books … by Nuts & Mutton - Plus ca change …*

Nuts & Mutton - Plus ca change …* — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:42:36 +0000

[...] pursuit of my third New Year Resolution, I have been ploughing through books at a rate of knots since January 1st. Although I’ve [...]

Comment on Bloody hell! by Brian Henry

Brian Henry — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:21:57 +0000

Tessa,
What a great blog!
So glad you dropped by Quick Brown Fox. I might neve have discovered you otherwise.
Care to exchange links?
Thank you, Brian. I’m glad you like my blog and happy to add you to the blogroll.

Comment on Bloody hell! by Midlife Slices

Midlife Slices — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:57:28 +0000

Bloody hell indeed. I’ve never had a single nose bleed but I’ve seen enough to know I sure don’t want one either. Take care of yourself and I hope it’s not an event that is repeated anytime soon.
Thanks, Janie. What your family is going through right now puts my little episode into perspective. Take care. xo

Comment on Bloody hell! by Smart Mouth Broad

Smart Mouth Broad — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:26:02 +0000

Daughter #2 suffers from nose bleeds too. D1, to my knowledge, has never been responsible but one never knows. D2 used to wake in the middle of the night covered in blood. Once I got her cleaned up and tended to, I would go to change her sheets. Egads, it looked like someone was murdered there.
Oh, I think you’d know, my dear! I had to empty the bin in the bathroom before the cleaning lady came, because it looked as though someone had cleaned up after a massacre in there.

Comment on Bloody hell! by The Poet Laura-eate

The Poet Laura-eate — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:18:42 +0000

You have my fullest sympathy as a fellow sufferer, though I do hope it was not the terror of meeting WWW that set you off!
Thanks, Laura. And I assure you I was not at all trepidatious about meeting WWW. Honest.