Elections are today. As a last moment of elections craziness, we got an ad in our mailbox:
EUKLEIDIS
No, that's not the name of a medicine.
It's a Greek mathematician who your child will learn about instead of learning mishnayot.
It went on for a while, with the ultimate point being, "A government without Judaism will make your son learn foreign subjects. You must protect the next generation. We all must. Vote Gimmel."
Anyway. I don't recall spending much time learning about Eukleidis that could have been used on anything else (as I recall, the lesson was something along the line of, "Eukleidis invented lots of geometry. The end."), and I'm way on the "make them learn math" end of the curriculum-politics spectrum - but I still thought it was a nice ad concept.
In other elections news, a head rabbi of Satmar (an anti-Zionist Chassidic group) is trying to convince people not to vote at all, and I hear that Satmar offered money to whoever was willing to turn over their ID card (thus rendering them unable to vote) for all of Tuesday. Which is both disturbing and amusing - disturbing because encouraging people not to vote is not very good for the health of a democratic society, amusing because who pays people not to vote for them? Satmar, you're doing it wrong.
Anyway, it's all almost over. Just over two hours to the big reveal, when we discover the shocking results. My dramatic prediction: Netanyahu wins, and all the small parties that have been promising their voters that this year is the year they get into Knesset, don't get into Knesset. Given the large number of undecided voters, I'm also predicting Yair Lapid does better than expected. He seems like the natural go-to candidate for people who aren't sure what they want.
In other news, I am chopping N's hair to half its current length, and D has recovered from her fever/ sleeping sickness/ whatever it was and has regained her old energy, which was great for a good several minutes, until she got her hands on the scissors. Also, she's decided she's a dog, not a lion, which means she's somewhat less aggressive but also much more likely to carry random items in her mouth (now if only she'd decide that being a dog means she has no thumbs and so can't use scissors. I can dream).
EUKLEIDIS
No, that's not the name of a medicine.
It's a Greek mathematician who your child will learn about instead of learning mishnayot.
It went on for a while, with the ultimate point being, "A government without Judaism will make your son learn foreign subjects. You must protect the next generation. We all must. Vote Gimmel."
Anyway. I don't recall spending much time learning about Eukleidis that could have been used on anything else (as I recall, the lesson was something along the line of, "Eukleidis invented lots of geometry. The end."), and I'm way on the "make them learn math" end of the curriculum-politics spectrum - but I still thought it was a nice ad concept.
In other elections news, a head rabbi of Satmar (an anti-Zionist Chassidic group) is trying to convince people not to vote at all, and I hear that Satmar offered money to whoever was willing to turn over their ID card (thus rendering them unable to vote) for all of Tuesday. Which is both disturbing and amusing - disturbing because encouraging people not to vote is not very good for the health of a democratic society, amusing because who pays people not to vote for them? Satmar, you're doing it wrong.
Anyway, it's all almost over. Just over two hours to the big reveal, when we discover the shocking results. My dramatic prediction: Netanyahu wins, and all the small parties that have been promising their voters that this year is the year they get into Knesset, don't get into Knesset. Given the large number of undecided voters, I'm also predicting Yair Lapid does better than expected. He seems like the natural go-to candidate for people who aren't sure what they want.
In other news, I am chopping N's hair to half its current length, and D has recovered from her fever/ sleeping sickness/ whatever it was and has regained her old energy, which was great for a good several minutes, until she got her hands on the scissors. Also, she's decided she's a dog, not a lion, which means she's somewhat less aggressive but also much more likely to carry random items in her mouth (now if only she'd decide that being a dog means she has no thumbs and so can't use scissors. I can dream).
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