Right-wing loony/hatemonger/ABBA-rejector Fred Phelps is coming to town today, and thanks to the convenient picket schedule on his website we know that he’ll be at the State House from 4:45-5:30, after a full afternoon of Jew-hating at the JCC on the East Side. Other local targets, and Phelps’s lengthy typo-ridden and deranged reasons for the […]
This has been going on for three days already, but I only just found out about it. There’s a festival of Israeli movies showing at Brown this week. Tonight’s Homeland and Children of the Sun, descriptions of which are, oddly, only presented in jpeg postcard form at the festival’s blog. And on the 18th they’ll
My new favorite nineteenth-century periodical: The American Jewess. Published in Chicago from 1895 to 1899–note their coverage of the Dreyfus Affair–it’s all online now and probably going to distract me for the rest of the day. [via Magic Molly]
Imagine for a moment that you are, for some reason, a white supremacist. And there’s an election coming up in a couple of weeks, and your two candidates are a half-black liberal and a pro-Israel conservative. What do you do? That’s the trouble faced by Bill White (pictured with the sweat stains over to the