This week’s SNN podcast is up. Bruce’s feature interview is with Sara Salzman of the Holocaust History Project, whose warehouse was the subject of an arson attack. The interview is phenomenal, do not miss it. As I told Bruce, it isn’t bad enough they’re denying the Holocaust — now they’re trying to destroy the evidence.

Shire Network News is the only place you can find my weekly commentary, “On Second Thought.” This week: The difficulties of being a not-quite-liberal Jew.

It’s funny, I tried to write a weekly essay for this blog, but have been unable to stick to it. But I can do it for someone else. Must be the effect that making promises to someone else always has on me. I can — and do — break promises to myself all the time. But I will move heaven and earth to keep my given word to someone else.

Lair Simon, on the other hand, is simply a font of seemingly limitless ability to write and podcast. If only we could bottle his drive.

And you simply have to listen to the recording of “Banned in Pakistan,” written and sung by Plus Ultra blogger’s dad.

On a scale of ten, I’m giving this week’s podcast a nine. Maybe 9.5.

So, you’re probably wondering where the bird flu that’s appeared in Israeli coops came from. Some Zionist Conspiracy Poison Factory lab in a Top Secret bunker?

Try Egypt:

The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that Egypt had reported its first human case of bird flu. “It was confirmed last night and reported officially this morning,” said Dr Hassan al-Bushra, WHO’s regional adviser for communicable diseases surveillance.

Egypt reported cases of the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu in poultry flocks last month.

China received global condemnation for dragging its two point six billion feet in reporting cases and sharing information on epidemics last year, failing to contain the virus and allowing it to spread into other countries.

Will Egypt receive condemnation for failing to contain the virus and take an active role in controlling it?

Go ahead. Hold your breath. The blue will go nicely with the upholstery.