THE DESECRATION OF THE CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY

Imagine if a bunch of Jewish soldiers, in a tense street-battle, had used a mosque as a sanctuary. Now, imagine that they had boozed it up, wrecked the joint, and left to enjoy a safe international exile. Do you think we would have heard the last of it? But the same is done by Palestinian terrorists in one of the holiest shrines in Christianity and the world media barely bats an eyelid. Where’s the outrage? Or has it all been used up on the Jews?

APPLE SURPASSES ITSELF: And I thought the iPod was cool.

DEAR READERS: Sometimes the email in-tray is worth passing on. Two favorites today: “You are to politics what Rex Reed is to movie reviewing. You will eventually be caught shoplifting.” I laughed. I cried. Then there was this: “Come on….you haven’t irritated me for days now. What’s going on. Has ‘treading the boards’ dulled your edge?” Next time, Howell, use your own email address.