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Feb. 9th, 2006 11:59 pm
High today, here: -7. Dewpoint then: -9. High dewpoint: -9.
High today in TO: -5. Dewpoint then: -11. High dewpoint: -10.
Low today on the balcony: -12.2. High: -6.4. Currently: -6.4.
Third rejection letter today. I think that's a new one-week record. Well, it's possible I got more than that in a week when I was applying to Ph.D. programs. Maybe. Ethics declares that their policy is not to publish exegetical, as opposed to analytic, articles such as mine. Which kind of makes me wonder whether I might have done a better job selling the thing with the abstract, and which kind of confirms my view that this is not the same Ethics that published Fraser's "Michel Foucault: A Young Conservative?" On to Philosophy and Social Criticism, I guess.
I also lost a pencil today, and there were a lot of Mennonites on the Greyhound, which led to the roughly bi-monthly backfiring of the sitting in the back left corner strategy. Before I leave Mennonite country, I really ought to look into getting another hat, although I didn't like the look of the Mennonite patriarch's hat as much as my old Pennsylvanian hat.
So, these journalists who have discovered "Torino"--I want to know if they will now say "Roma". And "Firenze". And "Moskva". And so on. "Nippon", why not. "Deutschland", obviously. "Italia", even. I mean, you clearly can't be in "Torino, Italy".
But that was just killing time while I was trying to think of one of those things that I meant to say, and now I've thought of one of them. It's about the cartoons, but it's not really about the cartoons. It's about The Double Standard. You know, the one certain defenders of Israel are always complaining about. It occurred to me, a few years ago (and you know, this is another Adelman-related thing, because this is Adelman Month here at Invitation to a Beheading; it was at Adelman's retirement conference), that they ought to take it as a compliment. Well, the Israelis; not necessarily their certain (all too certain) defenders. Israel is held to a higher standard than the Palestinians because people expect the Israelis to behave like responsible adults, and they expect the Palestinians to behave like irresponsible children. Same with the cartoon business.
Speaking of Israel, there's a column in today's Globe by Shira Herzog, in which she says that Hamas opposes al-Qaeda and global terrorism, and so Hamas's influence over the territories is a good thing, insofar as its radical Islamism keeps the Palestinians from adopting psychotic Islamism. Which is not something I'd heard before.
Directly below that column (but then, that would make it row, not a column, wouldn't it) there's a piece by Timothy Garton Ash on the cartoon business. It has a paragraph I liked about how with globalization, "When in Rome ... " has gone out the window. We're all in Rome, and we're all in all the places there are, we cosmopolitan Westerners.
I was thinking, as some people are thinking, that the whole business shows up, among other things, that there is, after all, a xenophobia in Europe which is alien to North America. But then the thought occurred to me: suppose Mexicans were Muslim. In which case, well, never mind.
High today in TO: -5. Dewpoint then: -11. High dewpoint: -10.
Low today on the balcony: -12.2. High: -6.4. Currently: -6.4.
Third rejection letter today. I think that's a new one-week record. Well, it's possible I got more than that in a week when I was applying to Ph.D. programs. Maybe. Ethics declares that their policy is not to publish exegetical, as opposed to analytic, articles such as mine. Which kind of makes me wonder whether I might have done a better job selling the thing with the abstract, and which kind of confirms my view that this is not the same Ethics that published Fraser's "Michel Foucault: A Young Conservative?" On to Philosophy and Social Criticism, I guess.
I also lost a pencil today, and there were a lot of Mennonites on the Greyhound, which led to the roughly bi-monthly backfiring of the sitting in the back left corner strategy. Before I leave Mennonite country, I really ought to look into getting another hat, although I didn't like the look of the Mennonite patriarch's hat as much as my old Pennsylvanian hat.
So, these journalists who have discovered "Torino"--I want to know if they will now say "Roma". And "Firenze". And "Moskva". And so on. "Nippon", why not. "Deutschland", obviously. "Italia", even. I mean, you clearly can't be in "Torino, Italy".
But that was just killing time while I was trying to think of one of those things that I meant to say, and now I've thought of one of them. It's about the cartoons, but it's not really about the cartoons. It's about The Double Standard. You know, the one certain defenders of Israel are always complaining about. It occurred to me, a few years ago (and you know, this is another Adelman-related thing, because this is Adelman Month here at Invitation to a Beheading; it was at Adelman's retirement conference), that they ought to take it as a compliment. Well, the Israelis; not necessarily their certain (all too certain) defenders. Israel is held to a higher standard than the Palestinians because people expect the Israelis to behave like responsible adults, and they expect the Palestinians to behave like irresponsible children. Same with the cartoon business.
Speaking of Israel, there's a column in today's Globe by Shira Herzog, in which she says that Hamas opposes al-Qaeda and global terrorism, and so Hamas's influence over the territories is a good thing, insofar as its radical Islamism keeps the Palestinians from adopting psychotic Islamism. Which is not something I'd heard before.
Directly below that column (but then, that would make it row, not a column, wouldn't it) there's a piece by Timothy Garton Ash on the cartoon business. It has a paragraph I liked about how with globalization, "When in Rome ... " has gone out the window. We're all in Rome, and we're all in all the places there are, we cosmopolitan Westerners.
I was thinking, as some people are thinking, that the whole business shows up, among other things, that there is, after all, a xenophobia in Europe which is alien to North America. But then the thought occurred to me: suppose Mexicans were Muslim. In which case, well, never mind.
