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Oh but what about all of the Indonesian Muslims? Stay home please.

Jews love Chinese restaurants. A stereotype with some backbone. I will say this. There are a great many bad Chinese restaurants. There is one near me called Discount Chinese Food. The name does not mislead. When they are good though wowzers. Incredible cuisine. Japanese seldom have bad restaurants and when they are Nobu no fooling they’re…[Read more]

Jake,

And it should be pointed out that there are or were recent allegations against Harvard policy in admitting Asians. Can’t let too many of THOSE people ascend or else we will be earing sushi and egg foo young until the cows and livestock are no longer slaughtered.

No danger of that. Wasabi Steak and Mongolian Beef are always in a…[Read more]

Reg, Robert, and Jake,

If we want Americans thinking critically and learning again, merit and ability should be the only criteria for admissions or employment in institutions of learning. Conditions of birth such as “race”, “ethnicity”, sex, and national origin should not be a consideration.

“Holistic” admissions and hiring are as bogus and…[Read more]

Reg

If I were using a hard copy dictionary, you would have me using the pages as a fan looking half of those up. You could be a Scrabble King easily!

Jake,

Funny, before I looked it up, I thought jejune was when SeSummer began.

Unseen,

Umm, you know, I have a far larger vocabulary than the average American, yet I had to run to the dictionary.

A little advice: if you want to be a smart communicator and not just a narcissistic egghead show off, use the common vocabulary.

The dictionary gives several synonyms: fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate…

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Growing up my family befriended a Norwegian family. The rats moved back to Norway. Anyways i remember the father who was an engineer telling us how Jews who numbered so few in Norway dominated the admissions in engineering school and yet no apparent discrimination or racism was apparent. I have a feeling that is no longer the case since Norway is…[Read more]

Robert, good and fair take.

However, based on the pervasiveness of the lefty religion of secular Jew hate and how thoroughly indoctrinated so many who are or will be so prominent in the US it is a real threat. Don’t say nutting halal. It is insanely frustrating to see how stupid people are. Oh shut up Bonhoeffer! You should have renounced your…[Read more]

Reg, you’ve confused me with Enco. He hit us with a cromulent left hook. Was happy to learn a new word. Jejune is a word that i have/had a mental block. Have come across it too many times to have an excuse to need a dictionary or now internet. Never ever hear anybody use word but it is in so many books.

Right now, christian nationalism is the #1 immediate threat to our nation and democracy on this planet. Not Islamists, not trans athletes, not antisemitic  Harvard, not China, not Ukranian Nazis, not even climate change. Anyone fighting this shit, I am gonna root for them. When the threat is over, then back to the regularly scheduled program.…[Read more]

Here is one of the reasons that Jews were discriminated against at Harvard and many elite American institutions in the early 20th century.

Jewish enrollment at elite colleges in the U.S. began to rise significantly due to merit-based admissions (which emphasized academic achievement). By the 1925, Jewish students made up more than 25% of the…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:
Harvard has a long history of discrimination against Jews. This lefty iteration of secular Jew hatred as an academic subject is such a joke. I want to see the money trail from Qutar to Harvard. Who has been paid off? Anti Jew. Anti western. Anti intellectual. Smoothing the pathway for Islamism to penetrate USA and being partly…

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Permit me Jake the indulgence of extending my most effulgent approbation for your recent prolix perambulations through the luxuriant lexicon of our beloved English tongue. Your sesquipedalian predilections, far from being an impediment to intelligibility, represent a salubrious balm upon the oft-diminished art of articulate articulation.

Indeed,…[Read more]

Harvard has a long history of discrimination against Jews. This lefty iteration of secular Jew hatred as an academic subject is such a joke.

I want to see the money trail from Qutar to Harvard. Who has been paid off? Anti Jew. Anti western. Anti intellectual. Smoothing the pathway for Islamism to penetrate USA and being partly responsible for the…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Robert, Here’s the press release you forgot to link: Students Against Antisemitism and Kasowitz Benson Torres Announce Settlement of their Lawsuit Against Harvard https://www.kasowitz.com/media/client-news/students-against-antisemitism-and-kasowitz-benson-torres-announce-settlement-of-their-lawsuit-against-harvard/

As p…

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TheEncogitationer wrote:
cromulent

Umm, you know, I have a far larger vocabulary than the average American, yet I had to run to the dictionary.

A little advice: if you want to be a smart communicator and not just a narcissistic egghead show off, use the common vocabulary.

The dictionary gives several synonyms: fine, acceptable or normal;…[Read more]

Jake,

Enco, i am torn betwen a requirement for Muslims before becoming US citizens. Should they be required to spit, urinate or defecate on their Quran?

It’s already forbidden for immigrants claiming asylum to be members of totalitarian parties or to engage in persecution themselves. We see how this is working out with our ill-enforced…[Read more]

Jake,

Big bang. 13 billion years hence. Cromulent. Big splash.

I like the word “cromulent.” It sounds like an adjective resulting from adding seasoned bread crumbs or cookie crumbs to complete a tasty entree or dessert.

Speaking of “The Big Bang”, when I first heard the term “Big Crunch” from the mouth of Berke Breathed’s child prodigy Oliver…[Read more]

Simon,

I think it’s ordinary straightforward philosophy. It would interest some people.

Posing a question and then saying that the answer is impossible to communicate, as Nagel does, is just intellectual self-lobotomizing. At least give the best evidence-based attempt at an answer and auto-correct when more evidence arises.