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The golden (calf(?)) image

jollyroger — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:24:09 +0000

In reply to I really don't think we want

The golden (calf(?)) image reference is the "tell"...

I really don't think we want

rmrd0000 — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:12:27 +0000

In reply to Catholic Church =

I really don't think we want to know the answer.

Catholic Church =

Peter Schwartz — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:47:46 +0000

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Catholic Church = anti-Christ?

Do you mean this seriously?

Not in the gadfly sense of serious, but in the serious sense of serious?

Thanks all. I'll go

Peter Schwartz — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:25:01 +0000

In reply to Obama's Brilliant Immigration Move

Thanks all. I'll go a-looking. Appreciate your taking the time.

Reading Jeffrey Isidoro's

artappraiser — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:26:00 +0000

In reply to And the Times gives us the

Reading Jeffrey Isidoro's story, what popped into my mind was 6-year-old Barry Obama going from public kindergarten in Honolulu to an Indonesian-language Catholic elementary school in Jakarta. Just sayin', you decide if it means anything one way or another...

You know, the then-Prince of

Peter Schwartz — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:55:11 +0000

In reply to Our country? check out the

You know, the then-Prince of Saudi Arabia wrote a letter to the UN I believe around the time of the founding of Israel, touching on your point.

He said that if everyone in the world were to go back to the place he came from and thus the place where he belonged, we would see the most amazing game of "global musical chairs" as the cartographers kept drawing and redrawing and redrawing yet again the map as we all marched backwards along the timeline of world history.

Could be fun, actually. Everyone would become a "wandering Jew." There are worse things to be.

Wander where I'd end up? First stop would be Brooklyn, New York, and then Hungary and Roumania. From there, who knows?

Would we end up having less attachment to place (or tribe) because of our peripatetic histories...or would we have even more attachment when we finally hit upon the one place where we knew we really and truly belonged?