In the meantime...

It's late, I'm in the midst of a double double - not the basketball kind, the two jobs kind - and other things in life are conspiring to seriously limit my  computer time this week, much less my clear thinking time.

May I leave you with the following thought for a few days until I flesh things out a bit?

On this day, September 8th, 2010:

A preacher in Florida is spewing hate around the world with his threatened Koran burning.

A conservative group in France is demanding the defacement of a gargoyle on a cathedral because its face depicts a Muslim stonemason who worked on the building and the words "Allah Akbar" are inscribed underneath.

...and in Brooklyn , a  group of Muslim musicans from Mali and a group of Jewish and Christian American musicians are staging a joyful Rosh Hashanah concert to begin the Jewish High Holy Days (as well as,  I imagine, to celebrate the fact that Eid is tomorrow or Friday)

I'm sure it's a touch of post-Billy Bragg anti-cynicism, but why is the hate and anger so newsworthy while joy and unity so not?

Sign me up for the Sway Machinery/Khiara Arby band Rosh Hashanah celebration please. 

Glad we'll get our own version of it in a couple of weeks.