‪ג׳ אדר תשס״ז * 21 February 2007: Ash Wednesday/International Mother Language Day

Greetings.

In celebration of today’s quasi-holiday, this post will be in my mother tongue: English.

Today’s news and commentary:

• “Australian Light Bulbs”
  
• “The Elephant In The Room”
  
• “The Economist's Politicized Cities Guide”
  
• “Pattern Non-Recognition”
  
• “US copyright lobby out-of-touch”
  
• “Should creationists be able to get PhDs in geoscience?” and the followup, “Religion and PhDs”
  
• “Sudanese refugees' release on agenda” (Why are these people in prison in the first place?)
  
• “Germans put price on protesting” (Depressing.)

Today’s weird thing is something horrific, something that will make nervous persons scream in agony. Continuing the trend from yesterday, I present one of the darkest chapters in the history of Oz, something even terrible than the current Wicked phenomenon: a preview for a Disney Oz movie on The Mickey Mouse Show. I thank HashShem that this project never came to fruition, and so will you if you watch the three video segments. Be scared and share the weirdness.

Aaron