This situation is now as old as anything

[sovay]

I am behind on posting about politics, NecronomiCon, and movies, I am exhausted and I have to catch a bus for a doctor's appointment right now, but Brandeis University has had to close its campus because of bomb threats and I am not happy. That is my non-sectarian, quota-busting, Jewish-sponsored alma mater, with a school calendar that shifts each year to the Jewish holidays and Hebrew on its university seal. In this political climate, I have a hard time thinking it's a coincidental crank call. Please explain to me again why it won't work if I inscribe אמת on the forehead of the nine-foot bronze statue of Justice Louis D. Brandeis and ask it to lay down some old-school crusading social justice on this country.

[edit] The campus has reopened, but I'm not sure I shouldn't still do it anyway.

Comments

[asakiyume]

That's terrible. I like your idea of animating the statue of Justice Brandeis.

We just saw a quote by him, coincidentally, on a building in Holyoke.

[tree_and_leaf]

I think you should go for it, tbh.

[yhlee]

*support support*

[zdenka]

Seems like a good time for a golem to me.

[gwynnega]

A Justice Brandeis golem sounds like just the ticket.

[pameladean]

Brandeis, thou shouldst be living at this hour. Yeah.

P.

[lemon_badgeress]

Please explain to me again why it won't work if I inscribe אמת on the forehead of the nine-foot bronze statue of Justice Louis D. Brandeis and ask it to lay down some old-school crusading social justice on this country.

....has anyone who says so TRIED?

[kore]

....it totally worked for Jack Kirby (metaphorically?)

[julian]

I would like to endorse this idea most heartily. Louis Brandeis for the defense! (Of the USA.)

[selidor]

At the very least, it's a hell of a poem-story. One can do a lot with a grease-pencil?

Grief, I wish all this wasn't happening to your country. I just keep wishing for more flowering of the America I know, the one where people are kind and generous and build & create amazing things, and less of this hurtful vampire America that is showing its parasitic fangs.

[coraline]

Oh my goodness that image of the judge is amazing. I'd read that story :)

[nineweaving]

Brilliant!

Nine