Saturday, August 20, 2005  A Historic Moment  I'm leaving this
blog up for a couple of days, and no, I'm not just being lazy.
This is something really important, and I want to make sure
everyone reads this and internalizes it. We are at a crossroads
in history.  I admit it. Sydney Greenstreet lookalike Ariel
Sharon sure as hell fooled me. He really did it. The Fat Man
dragged those obnoxious hebes in the knitted blue kipas kicking
and screaming out of Gaza. He did it for all the wrong reasons,
i.e. to avoid a corruption indictment against himself and his
sons and to avoid leaving the office of Israeli prime minister
in disgrace and going to prison for his greed and his fraud, but
never mind--he did it. The Fat Man came through. Good for him.
This is a genuinely historic moment. For the first time since
1939, the Jewish people have been forced to surrender their ill-
gotten gains and give back something they stole. This is
something that no one living has ever seen.  For the first time
since 1939 there is now