Bluesky Wrapped

A lot of people know about the Germans in the space program, but the more relevant engineer might be Qian Xuesen, the MIT/CalTech aerospace professor who co-founded JPL and was sent to recruit the Germans. We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.

Ozzy Osbourne memorial favorite story. While Sabbath was touring, occasionally slightly overboard proto-goths would show up outside their dressing rooms, light candles and pray to Satan. Osbourne would sit down with them, sing happy birthday and blow out the candles.

In 2009, ADL said cartoonist Gary Trudeau referencing Jesus and the moneylenders was antisemitic, noting: "To speak of money-lenders harkens back the stereotype of Shylock, when Jews were forced by Christians to engage in usury.” So, in 2009, ADL believed Shylock was self-evidently antisemitic.