I liked “Bones,” which I watched because David “Angel” Boreanaz was in it. I kept watching because it’s good.

Can’t wait for the season premieres of my favorite shows.

And yes, I will be posting “Lost” parodies again. I suppose I should make up a Lost Episode Summary category. But I’ve got a whole week.

Gilmore Girls: Still no effing WB here, except for what gets on NBC late at night. I have a whole week to wait for the season premiere, dammit. Or is it two weeks?

Sigh.

I thought I’d alert you to one of the categories that I’ve set up, but not (until now) posted in.

But I’m not going to tell you what it’s about.

Not yet, anyway.

Soon.

Oh. Wait, let me stop the wrong rumors from going around.

No, I’m not going to get a sex change or reveal myself as a man. I’ve got those XX chromosomes, thank you very much, and the hormonal surges to prove it.

Someone needs to explain to me how what happened in Iraq today can in any way be labeled the actions of “insurgents” who are fighting to rid the country of the “occupiers.”

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - More than a dozen highly coordinated bombings ripped through Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 160 people and wounding 570 in the capital’s bloodiest day since the end of major combat. Many of the victims were day laborers lured by a suicide attacker posing as an employer.

Al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the attacks in the name of Sunni insurgents, saying it was a retaliation for the rout of militants at a base close to the Syrian border.

Notice how the language is almost an exact duplicate of the language used to describe terrorist attacks in Israel. Substitute “Hamas” for “Al Qaeda,” “Jerusalem” for “Baghdad,” and “palestinians” for “Sunni insurgents,” and then pick the excuse for “retaliation.”

Zarqawi isn’t even bothering to hide his intent any more, and yet, the mainstream media refuses to call him by his true description: Terrorist. Who bore the brunt of today’s attacks?

The spasm of violence terrorized the capital for more than nine hours. The first attack, at 6:30 a.m., was the deadliest: a suicide car blast which tore through the predominantly Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Kazimiyah.

In what was believed to be a new tactic, the bomber set off the explosive after calling the construction and other workers to his small van and enticing them with promises of employment, a witness said. At least 112 people were killed and more than 200 were wounded, according to Health Ministry officials. Twisted hulks of vehicles blocked the bloodstained main street in Kazimiyah’s Oruba Square.

Day laborers. Ordinary citizens, looking for work so they could earn money to feed their families. These people were not connected in any way with the police, the Iraqi army, or coalition forces. This was a slaughter of innocents, and it should have been condemned by every nation’s representative who spoke today at the UN General Assembly.

Of course, it was not.

And let’s not overlook this choice bit buried deeply within the article:

Iraqi forces arrested two insurgents in connection with the Kazimiyah bombing, one of them a Palestinian and the other a Libyan, Iraqi television quoted Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari as saying. Al-Jaafari also said the suicide bomber was a Syrian, without offering any details how the identification was made so quickly.

Shouldn’t an insurgent to be a native of the land he’s fighting for? Wouldn’t you otherwise call these men mercenaries, or perhaps even—dare I say it—terrorists?

I’m thinking yes.

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Saddam Hussein got free rein for decades. Robert Mugabe starves his citizens, North Korea is a prison camp, and the world covers its eyes to those crimes. The massacres in Darfur go on, even as the UN tsk-tsks and says they really are going to get around to doing something to stop them someday. The war crimes trial of Milosevic was how many years long?

So whom does the world go after for “war crimes”?

The Jews.

The EU is one of the groups behind the British arrest warrant for the former head of the IDF Southern Command, Doron Almog. A self-hating Israeli is the lawyer behind the warrant.

Reading article after article after article on this case, I get a sense of 1930s Germany. The war crimes cover sure seems like an excuse to single out the Jews, because I’m not seeing a war crimes warrant for Saddam Hussein’s arrest issued anywhere but Iraq. I see a lot of his defenders, though. I guess it’s okay to be a mass murderer, but it is not okay to do what it takes to defend your people in the midst of a terror war.

And they’re not stopping at Almog. Now they’re going after Dan Halutz and Moshe Yalon.

And yet, there are no war crimes charges against palestinian terrorists, or the terror-supporting states that fund them, train them, and send them weapons and bombs.

When people tell me that the anti-Israel movements are not anti-Semitic, this is why I won’t believe them.

Of course, the war has never quite ended. But the signs that the pals think the way to Gaza is the way to the West Bank are there for all but the blind to see. Then again, that blind includes the EU, the UN, and the mainstream media, as well as the State Dept. and the Bush administration.

Witness for the prosecution:

Earlier Tuesday evening, IDF troops on patrol in the village of Taffuh, near Hebron, were attacked by a crowd of about 500 people hurling stones and concrete blocks. After an IDF soldier was lightly wounded in the head, the soldiers fired rubber bullets and teargas in order to disperse the crowd.

Witness number two:

A hand grenade or bomb was thrown at an IDF patrol on the perimeter of Moshav Netiv Ha’asara on Tuesday night.

No one was wounded and no damage was reported in the attack near the northern Gaza Strip security fence, the army said.
Since the army left Gaza, the community has become the focus of Palestinian attacks.

The incident occurred a day after a group of Palestinians crossed into the community and threw stones at soldiers, forcing them to fire warning shots in the air to drive them away.

Witness the third, which of course includes the famed palestinian tolerance for other religions:

Palestinians placed a pipe bomb near Rachel’s Tomb, south of Jerusalem. No injuries or damages were reported. IDF troops found a second bomb nearby and blew it up in a controlled manner. (Efrat Weiss)

And the most damning witness of all:

Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar told tens of thousands of excited Palestinians at a Gaza Strip rally Tuesday his organization would continue to fight Israel following the withdrawal from Gaza, and vowed to liberate Haifa and Jaffa from the hands of its “Zionist occupiers,”.

“We will win in Jerusalem and in Palestine, the whole of Palestine,” al-Zahar told the cheering crowd. During the event, participants yelled out “Allahu akbar” (God is great) and chanted in support of Izz al-Din al-Qassam, Hamas’ military wing, calling on the group to continue the liberation operation and refuse to disarm.

But the EU thinks Hamas will ultimately be co-opted into a “peaceful” palestinian state.

Right.

Okay, I no longer have the student whom I shall call Bad Boy Number One (he’s not really bad, just rather difficult to discipline). I sat in the row in front of him during t’filah (prayers) today, moving back and forth behind my students, who sat in the row in front of me. I’ve learned that sitting behind my students is the best way of keeping them on task and in line.

So I’m moving back and forth, and I feel a squishy object beneath my shoe. I lift my right foot, and there on the carpet in the Sanctuary is what looks like gum. Extremely annoyed, I reach down and pull it up. It turns out to be a putty-like substance, so I wonder if perhaps a workman dropped it. In any case, I leave the sanctuary, go downstairs, and throw it away.

When I come back, I see Bad Boy Number One and Bad Boy Number Two pulling something out of One’s turned-out pocket. “He left some Silly Putty in there and it got all over,” Two said. Now I’m even more annoyed, and I very frostily tell Number One that I found his Silly Putty, stepped on it, thought it was gum, and threw it out. “That’s okay,” One said, “I don’t really want it anymore.” That’s what he said last year every time I took something away from him. And yet, after class, I saw that he had a large lump of what was left of the Silly Putty. Perhaps he wasn’t quite done with it after all.

“You know,” I told him, “you’re not even my student anymore and you’re still giving me trouble.”

He did apologize, though. He said he dropped the Silly Putty and then forgot he had dropped it. Yeah, that’s what he used to say last year, too.

Not missing my old students nearly as much today as I was on Sunday.