Good Typing Of The Day

 in an era when the forces of technology are growing ever more powerful.

We've no idea any more; we appeal to English professors/teachers/T.A.s (Hundreds of them out there, we're sure, every last one Googling for "Sophia Loren + topless" or "Christian Wife Spanking."): Is the above sample typical of a middle-school student, or would today's first-yr.-of-high-school student be that lame too? At the very best, an under-paid English major writing blurbs for a game-based sci-fi series book cover, & not devoting much effort to it.

Ah hah, it's from the AP, not one of Tucker's toadies. See what happens when you assume? (Or cannot process "(AP)" even though it's right before your tired, aged peepers?) The typing level is still not that surprising. And not worth noting if the story in which it occurs hadn't been fun.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Prominent ultra-Orthodox Israeli rabbis are targeting a new foe in the decidedly impious world of the Internet: They’ve demanded a boycott of their community’s own Web sites, accusing them of disseminating “gossip, slander … filth and abominations.”

No law firm jokes. We don't need any more lawsuits.

It's a brief read, & heartening (in these sad & troubling times of ... of ... of troubling sadness) as the "forces of technology" threaten haredi hierarchy in the "Holy Land."

A recent comment thread somewhere (Balloon Juice?) was going on w/ the age-old "How come them neo-con Jewish folks are aligned w/ the fungelicals, who only want them Joooos to get burned up so Jesus'll come back, etc.?" The haredi rabbis are the Jews the religious right really admire. They have their people as cultified as possible, short of keeping them at the Spahn Movie Ranch.