Thing 2: Yeah, that “Tiger Mother” essay really bothered me, too. Katie Granju has a great response.

Thing 3: The U.K. government forced the BBC to change their winter prediction from “severe” to “mild” to promote the global warming hoax? Oh, my. If true, this will bring down the Cameron government.

Thing 4: The American public is so much smarter than the pundit classes think we are. We’re not buying the bullshit argument that “eliminationist rhetoric” fanned the flames of batshit-crazy Jared Loughner’s shooting spree.

Thing 5: Sarah Palin issues a statement. Video.

Thing 6: If you don’t read Instapundit on a daily basis, you miss a lot of great links.

The recovery is not very recovery-ish: This is really, really, REALLY bad. Charlie Brown’s is my favorite restaurant, ever. I love their prime rib. I’ve been going to one or the other of their franchises since I was in college at Montclair State. Now I hear that not only are they shutting down the Montclair Charlie Brown’s (oh, the pain, the pain!), but 20 other CB’s all over the northeast. Geez. The only good news in this awful piece is that the one near my friends in Hamilton will remain open. Hey, Kim, guess where we’re going for dinner next month? (Oh. Phew. Denville was saved, too.)

Bummer. You can’t recall a U.S. Senator. Well, perhaps we should add an amendment.

Yaacov is busy, but not too busy to note the hypocrisy of the world media regarding the war against the Taliban, and the war against terrorists in Gaza.

Does this website make my pet look fat? Via Lair Simon, whose Edloe pic is there.

Soccer Dad has a lot more posts over on his place than he does here. So does Snoopy. And Jack. Go check them out.

There’s always the big guns: Hot Air (love those Dude headlines), Glenn Reynolds, Contentions. (Hey! The anti-Semitic comments are gone, but so are all the rest. I’d have gone to moderated, but hey, that’s me.)

Who are you reading?

Speaking of Lair, he sent me to this link about Captain America being brought back (he was killed by a sniper’s bullet two years ago). Well, I didn’t buy the book when he was killed, and I don’t plan to buy it now. He was killed to sell comics. Same reason most superheroes die. It now serves Marvel’s purpose to bring him back. And dudes, trust me when I tell you that this was decidedly not the scene in most households:

“The reaction was amazing,” says Marvel Executive Editor Tom Brevoort. “It certainly was like the world went crazy for three days. Everybody had a point of view about it, including fans who hadn’t read the comic for 30 years.”

Ah, no. Most people truly didn’t give a rat’s ass if Cap lived or died. However, I must point out that he was yet another superhero invented by Jews (Joe Simon and Jack Kirby).

Have I mentioned Elder of Ziyon lately? No, I have not. But I should have. Just start at the top and scroll down, you can’t go wrong.

The Trader Joe’s Battle of Couscous: A blog I did not know existed, with a perfect name for a Master of Juvenile Scorn: Divest This! (By the way, the campaign against Trader Joe’s failed miserably. Israeli products flew off the shelves, but in the good way, not the bad way. Click the link for the story.)

Omri’s news feed no longer gives you the full post, so now you have to go there to read his blog. He says it’s my feed. I say it’s his. Tomato, tomato, let’s call the whole thing off. (Say, Omri, when are you heading my way again? I have a guest room now for, well, guests.)

I wonder if Ilyka still gets emails if you post comments at her old site. I think you should all post comments there and see if we can drive her out of retirement (or at least out of hiding).

Contentions has been one of my favorite places these days. It should be on your must-read list. And Yaacov, too. I’m nearly finished with his book, “Right to Exist.”

All right. Another piece missing from this blog is being re-established.

A Tale of Two Engineers (in one of the attacked hotels in Mumbai).

Another from Treppenwitz: His memories of the Holtzbergs.

So why kill the Rabbi?

Fighting evil by doing good, or by fighting evil?

What’s really going on in Hevron.

Choose a rabbi you can follow. I did that last year, which is why I am no longer teaching at or a member of my synagogue, whose leadership didn’t agree with me that the temporary rabbi was a terrible fit for our group. (Of course, he bailed on us and went elsewhere, contrary to his promises to stay and help rebuild our fractured congregation. Imagine that. I was right about him, and our clueless leadership was wrong.)

Name a country where an act of Muslim terror has occurred which hasn’t somehow tied in with Jews and Israel. Bet you can’t.

They’re terrorists. Call them what they are.

The Jewish Writing Project. Kewl.

The blessings in having your enemies close. (Such a good-looking boy, too.)

What is the most challenging aspect of blogging? (Can I add “Watching two-bit hacks get a much larger readership than yours because they depend on polemicism, cliches, crappy writing, and extreme opinions instead of good, fact-based posts”?)

You simply have to scroll down to the Dreidel Song video. Jews Texas Two-Stepping is laugh out loud hilarious. Yippe-yi-yo-chai-yay, indeed.

And that’s that. Time to do some of my own writing.

Meantime, there’s the latest SNN. It’s a roundtable discussion.

There’s also Haveil Havalim. You’ll have to tell me which are your favorite links; no time to read it tonight.

A few quick peeks: Rahm Emanuel loses his security clearance. (Ties to Israel. Has anyone lost their clearance over ties to Saudi Arabia?)

I like this idea: An India-Israel-US alliance against terrorism. The Indians face constant terrorist attacks from the Islamists within and without.

A rebbetzin’s husband (I love that concept) on trying.

There’s also the Kosher Cooking Carnival, which is probably a good thing to check out on the eve of Thanksgiving.

Read the rest. I’m only cherry-picking the few that I clicked on.