Anti-Asian Hate Crime Week: The Chindian Experience

There are idiots who think yesterday's Simpsons/Ganesh clip is racist. Did we mention these people are idiots? The whole point is that Homer understands life and the universe through TV, and naturally assumed the 'natives' will be terrified by Ganesh. Instead they are confused, annoyed, and in one case outraged. Homer is later chased up a tree. The best line is when the mother-in-law says, 'Ganesh has been subdued.' In watching this clip, those who may not know pick up just a little bit of Indian culture. See how that works? My friend and neighbor Sourabh Mukherji thinks the clip is funny.

The Bridgewater/Raritan school district superintendent is Dr. Thomas Ficarra.  He refuses to do the right thing and fully open the schools. Yesterday the board announced that if your in-person child is home sick, they will not be able to attend school virtually. The point of this rule of what? Dr. Thomas Ficarra, despite all that education (did you know he's a 'doctor'), refuses to think for himself and simply tells us over and over again, we're following state and CDC guidelines. What's the point of all that education if you sit at your desk and wait for the CDC to tell you what to do? Dr. Thomas Ficarra is worried about his liability and terrified of the unions. He'a coward.

Tonight's the first night of Passover, the most important holiday in Judaism. As Mrs. Stroock is still in Indiana caring for a relative we don't know what, if anything we'll do tonight. We're thinking we'll just gather the girls, answer the four questions and maybe read the plagues. One by one you dip a finger in red whine, dab it on a plate and recite:

1. Blood. (Dam)
2. Frogs (Tsifardeah)
3. Lice (Kinim)
4. Gnats and flies (Arov)
5. Disease on livestock (Dever)
6. Unhealable boils (Shkhin)
7. Hail and thunder (Barad)
8. Locusts (Arbeh)
9. Darkness (Choshech)
10. Death of the first-born of all humans and animals. (Makat b’chorot)

Say it in Hebrew and you'll get chills. When the Israelis give their military operations biblical names, you know they're bringing some serious pain. Remember the fate awaiting all enemies of the Jews. Hate us all you want. In a thousand years your civilization will be picked over by archeologists, and we'll still be here. 

Speaking of, it seems the Israelis are deadlocked again. Bibi's real genius is picking rival Likudniks, making enemies of them, and dividing them accordingly. At the moment none of those enemies could agree on who gets to be PM. Maybe a rotational thing, but who knows?

Below, the Friday Flag: