Oh, we understand perfectly, Professor

"Georgetown professor walks back statement that Iran should perform 'symbolic' strike on U.S. base"

A Georgetown University educator appeared to indicate that he hopes that Iran strikes a United States military base after the U.S. struck Iran’s nuclear facilities on Saturday.

Jonathan Brown, Georgetown’s chair of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies and the director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, made the comments to his X account on Sunday [emphasis mine - Paco].

Well, it's a Jesuit university, so... 

Really?

I can't believe that, somewhere, there are still some grandmothers and retired Navy SEALS running around loose after their participation in the January 6th uprising, while law enforcement wastes its time on arresting child traffickers: "Attorney General James Uthmeier and U.S. Marshal William Berger Announce the Rescue of Sixty Missing Children in Central Florida".

Seriously, kudos to those law enforcement personnel who are working in one of the ugliest corners of crime imaginable, freeing the most vulnerable of captives and bringing some very twisted predators to justice.

Update Original link is busted; I replaced it with a link to another site.

Classical corner

Pianist Robert Plano performs Ottorino Respighi's Notturno.

"Never forget" changed into "Let's rethink this" pretty quickly

"Bob Vylan, Glastonbury and the banality of Jew hatred".

If you can’t see it now, you never will. The sight of tens of thousands of people at Glastonbury yesterday joining in a spirited chant of ‘Death, death to the IDF’ was the sight of us officially becoming a very different country, I fear. One in which anti-Israel hysteria has so flawlessly rehabilitated Jew hatred that it has become unthinking, conformist, almost mundane.

The British writer, H.H. Munro ("Saki"), wrote a darkly humorous story about a prankster who, passing through a rural area of Britain, pretended to be the new pastor of the local church whose arrival he had heard was imminent. At a small gathering of his parishioners - at a tea party or something like it - he proposed a pogrom against the Jews. The humor of that story, written in the pre-WWI period, derives from the fact that the Jews - including a local landowner much respected in the community - had become so thoroughly integrated into society that the "pastor's" instructions were clearly seen as outrageous by the locals - and would be seen as equally outrageous by readers of the story (by the way, I unfortunately do not recall the title of the story, but will look for it later).

Would such a call be seen as outrageous today in, say, London or other large metropolitan centers in the UK? One wonders. 

Was it something I said?

Execrable RINO senator from North Carolina, Thom Tillis, has decided to throw in the towel.

Mrs. Paco and I did inform him that he had lost our support, and that I'd be using my social media connections to see him unseated (I may have forgotten to mention that my following, to borrow a phrase used on occasion by Richard McEnroe, only numbers in the "high severals" - and that's probably a stretch).

Sunday funnies

 

7 Changes Mamdani Is Proposing For New York City

Appalachian word of the day.

When cats panic.

Won't you help?

When you walk through first class.

How hot is it? This hot.

City dog has trouble adjusting to the country.

Um, over here.

From Power Line's The Week in Pictures.

Don't stop until that train runs off the bridge and crashes into the gorge

"Bondi touts 2,700-plus arrests of Tren de Aragua members".

Update  And I want to see a whole lot more of this, too: "DOJ Abruptly Fires Three High-Ranking Prosecutors Involved in Persecuting January 6 Defendants"