Today’s class was, well, horrible. For whatever reason, the students were at their worst behavior of the entire year. They were unruly and talkative and simply would not listen. In fact, I gave every single student a negative point at the end of the class for their abominable behavior.

All that being said, there was something extremely amusing today, too.

I have never had a poker face, or at least, not when it comes to being angry. The entire world knows when I’m angry. I am simply unable to hide what has become known as “The Look.” I flash people a look even when they’re only mildly annoying, apparently. Today, after one of my students was being particularly annoying, he and the other students commented on the look I was giving him. They particularly noted that they had never seen that specific expression before. “That’s because you’ve never been this bad,” I said.

“Can you do it again?” they asked.

The lesson was not learned.

For the rest of the class, every time the students misbehaved and I shot them a reproving look, there was a chorus of, “She’s doing it again!” and “There it is!” and (sigh) “Can you do it again?”

This look, I explained to my madrich (assistant), is but a pale shadow of the look that has been known to cause grown men to flatten against the wall as I walk past, hoping against hope that it isn’t directed at them. It is the look that used to get my father, one of the only men in the world who was not afraid of it, to say, “Stop looking at me like that.” It is the look I used to call the “Eff-you” look.

Sigh. The Look has been relegated to an entertaining expression for fourth graders when they are misbehaving.

I guess I’m not nearly as angry as I used to be.

Then again, they were just misbehaving children. I’m perfectly sure The Look is still there for when it’s truly needed. Disciplining unruly children in religious school is not one of those times.

The Iranians have cured AIDS.

No, really.

Honest! They said so!

Iran Introduces AIDS Cure

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- After 7 long years of arduous work, Iranian scientists here on Saturday introduced a herbal medicine which cures Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).

“The drug named ‘IMOD’ is completely effective and safe with no proved side effects,” Iran’s Minister of Health, Treatment and Medical Training Kamran Bagheri Lankarani said during a ceremony at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Hospital.

The Iranian AIDS drug strengthens immunity system of the patients against HIV and provides a more qualitative life for the affected population.

And they did it without the help of a single Jewish scientist. Now that’s an achievement.

This week’s SNN is up, featuring Douglas Murray, the man who joined Daniel Pipes to open a can of reality on Ken Livingstone’s West-bashing, er, clash of civilizations conference.

My contribution this week: All I did was quote liberally from the liberal moonbats on the Mall last week. Money quote: “PULL…. OUT…. NOW.” It’s a must-listen.

The Sunday Times says that Iranian nuclear scientist ‘assassinated by Mossad’:

A prize-winning Iranian nuclear scientist has died in mysterious circumstances, according to Radio Farda, which is funded by the US State Department and broadcasts to Iran.

An intelligence source suggested that Ardeshire Hassanpour, 44, a nuclear physicist, had been assassinated by Mossad, the Israeli security service.

Hassanpour worked at a plant in Isfahan where uranium hexafluoride gas is produced. The gas is needed to enrich uranium in another plant at Natanz which has become the focus of concerns that Iran may be developing nuclear weapons.

According to Radio Farda, Iranian reports of Hassanpour’s death emerged on January 21 after a delay of six days, giving the cause as “gas poisoning”. The Iranian reports did not say how or where Hassanpour was poisoned but his death was said to have been announced at a conference on nuclear safety.

If you don’t see a direct link to the poisonous balloons, you definitely need a new pair of reading glasses. In any case, whatever is the cause of this mysterious demise, the old Yiddish saying (in a free translation) seems to work in this case: “Dead, shmead - the main thing is to be healthy”.

Oh, and another observation related to the following:

Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency say that hundreds of technicians and labourers have been “working feverishly” to assemble equipment at the plant.

Slow down, people - as you see, haste around uranium hexafluoride could be detrimental to your health…

Cross-posted on SimplyJews