Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews --

... what did Mahatma Gandhi actually think of the idea of Israel, and of the fate of the Jews of his time?

As it turns out, M.K. Gandhi engaged in sustained conversation with Jewish intellectuals of his day—many of whom were dismayed by the great man's insistence, for example, that Jews in Germany should have willingly "offered themselves to the butcher's knife."

In this essay, Shalom Goldman sketches out the little-known background to a contemporary controversy. ...

Pick one:

(a) OMG!!! Raise the terror code to RED!!! Where'd I put that plastic and duct tape, Tom? You were right Loud Obbs, they ARE inside our borders [pause to breathe into paper bag to calm hyperventilation]

(b) Ho hum. Page 29b. Shall we run this at all, boss? There's an update on Anna Nicole's baby's daddy's diaper rash here someplace....

Simultaneous raids carried out in four Alabama counties Thursday turned up truckloads of explosives and weapons, including 130 grenades, an improvised rocket launcher and 2,500 rounds of ammunition belonging to the small, but mightily armed, Alabama Free Militia.

These stories have nothing to do with each other, except that they do. The six-year campaign to get Certain People put in charge of all those alphabetic agencies in Washington is bearing fruit.

The first we will call the "Mom Said No--Let's Go Ask Daddy" amendment. It affects power companies [coughlikeEnronmaybe?cough] ability to overrule state regulators and put massive power transmission lines wherever the fuck they want.

The second is under the Department of Won't Anyone Think Of The Children? and would give the FCC, that bastion of civil liberties 'n' free speech 'n' all, authority to regulate content of cable and other off-air providers just like they now do with over-the-air (broadcast) radio and TV. The regulations, we are told, would be to regulate violent programming. The FCC has been "studying" this question for three years, it seems, and by sheer coincidence released their report --discovering that they not only have this right but that it "does not conflict with the First Amendment" --a week after the Virginia Tech shootings. Sheer coincidence, we tell ya.

Ha, while we've been having our own little discussions about misogyny here at Corrente, it looks like Big Orange stepped in it. You make the call. Kos' original post. In which he basically says, "Suck it up. Death threats happen. They aren't a big risk." Which is what I said somewhere, I'm too tired to go digging for it now. Steve D and about a score of other bloggers (live links at link) think Kos should apologize, mainly for underestimating and misrepresenting the very real risk that women, but not men, face in these sorts of threats. BTD also falls into that group who think Kos blew it, but initially had a different reaction. Is Kos a misogynist and what does that mean for the movement?