- From the Slog: “Log Cabin Republican: Fuck Gays Who Live in Other States!” (That’s not the good kind of “fuck”, either.)
- From the Arizona Republic, via Feministing: Arizona’s “Squaw Peak” to be officially renamed “Piestewa Peak” after Lori Piestewa, a Hopi soldier who was killed in combat in Iraq in March 2003.
- From the BBC: A new American liberal pro-peace Jewish lobby called J Street, a sort of liberal counterweight to the conservative-dominated AIPAC. It’s been high time for something like this for years; I’m glad it’s got off the ground with as much fanfare as it’s been getting.
- From my good friend Friar Yid: “They All Look Alike”. This appears to be the opinion of some Haredi Jews regarding non-Orthodox or secular Jews. Ugly, ugly, ugly.
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16 April 2008 at 6:03 pm
Jon
Re: J Street
I heard about this on NPR. Once it’s going, the trick would seem to be keeping it going in the face of AIPAC. Wait and see how effective a non-hard-line Israel lobby can be…