On the one hand: yeesh...*

On the other: aah, hell, history should be so kind...

Happy Thanksgiving, all!

*motivated by my recent reading of this book...

Update, 11-27: from a friend on my Queens synagogue's listserve:

You can't make this stuff up. From today's Huffington Post, quoting the New York Post (no relation).

Merry Hanukkah from the White House!

The president and the first lady invited leaders of America's Jewish community for a Hanukkah reception at the White House next month - but raised more than a few eyebrows by putting a picture of a Christmas tree on the invitation.