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High today, here: 0. Dewpoint then: -8. High dewpoint: -8.
High today in TO: 3. Dewpoint then: -10. High dewpoint: -9.
Low today on the balcony: -8.2. High: 1.2. Currently: -2.4.
Not sure what I was thinking, playing Huet tonight. Oh well. I guess on balance it's better that he gets shelled than the Leafs lose. My teams can take the hit, for now; the Leafs can't. (But of course CuJo has stopped 35 of 37 at Detroit. Sheesh.)
Meanwhile, Alex Rios hit a home run for Puerto Rico while Eric Hinske holds down the fort in right back in Dunedin. Has the world gone mad?
One for the Parti Québécois kulturkritik file: the Ontario ministry of culture and whathaveyou is currently running TV ads for Ontario, uh, culture, in which a variety of big-ticket show performers sing the theme song to Looney Tunes.
This (or, more briefly, this) is fascinating, and a bit surprising, to me: while support among American Jews for the Democrat vs. the Republican has steadily fallen from 88% in the 1992 presidential election to 78% in 2004, it was still 10% higher in 2004 than in at least the five elections prior to 1992. Funny stat: the sub-group of Jews least likely to vote for the Democrat is men under 30; the sub-group second-most likely to vote for the Democrat is women under 30.
But maybe the most interesting thing, and the thing that probably explains the resilience of Democrat support among Jews, is that American Jews identify as liberals by more than a 2:1 margin. Judaism does strike me as a profoundly liberal religion, in the most fundamental sense, in a way that at least actually existing Christianity is not, which is something that I'd thought of saying something about in relation to the idea of a political-critical reading of the Moses story: you simply do not get things like that these days out of believing Christians, which is, to me, a sad thing. In my experience, lively criticism (in the best sense of the word) of Old Testament texts from actual believers only comes from Jews. (On the local Christian TV station, anyway, that's certainly the case.) I'm not sure, exactly, why that is (though I would certainly speculate that it has something to do with the Jewish god being a character in a way the (Platonized) Christian god absolutely is not), but there it is.
High today in TO: 3. Dewpoint then: -10. High dewpoint: -9.
Low today on the balcony: -8.2. High: 1.2. Currently: -2.4.
Not sure what I was thinking, playing Huet tonight. Oh well. I guess on balance it's better that he gets shelled than the Leafs lose. My teams can take the hit, for now; the Leafs can't. (But of course CuJo has stopped 35 of 37 at Detroit. Sheesh.)
Meanwhile, Alex Rios hit a home run for Puerto Rico while Eric Hinske holds down the fort in right back in Dunedin. Has the world gone mad?
One for the Parti Québécois kulturkritik file: the Ontario ministry of culture and whathaveyou is currently running TV ads for Ontario, uh, culture, in which a variety of big-ticket show performers sing the theme song to Looney Tunes.
This (or, more briefly, this) is fascinating, and a bit surprising, to me: while support among American Jews for the Democrat vs. the Republican has steadily fallen from 88% in the 1992 presidential election to 78% in 2004, it was still 10% higher in 2004 than in at least the five elections prior to 1992. Funny stat: the sub-group of Jews least likely to vote for the Democrat is men under 30; the sub-group second-most likely to vote for the Democrat is women under 30.
But maybe the most interesting thing, and the thing that probably explains the resilience of Democrat support among Jews, is that American Jews identify as liberals by more than a 2:1 margin. Judaism does strike me as a profoundly liberal religion, in the most fundamental sense, in a way that at least actually existing Christianity is not, which is something that I'd thought of saying something about in relation to the idea of a political-critical reading of the Moses story: you simply do not get things like that these days out of believing Christians, which is, to me, a sad thing. In my experience, lively criticism (in the best sense of the word) of Old Testament texts from actual believers only comes from Jews. (On the local Christian TV station, anyway, that's certainly the case.) I'm not sure, exactly, why that is (though I would certainly speculate that it has something to do with the Jewish god being a character in a way the (Platonized) Christian god absolutely is not), but there it is.
