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Jack’s Deli, Cleveland Heights, OH

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It wasn’t the Shmaltz Beer Messiah Nut Brown Ale that surprised me.

It was the Shmaltz Beer Star Trek Deep Space Nine Profit Motive Ale.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZQ2RUFd54o)

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@copperbadge Tony crossed with Zola in the Z Dimension?

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How We Treat Mental Illness Vs. How We Treat Physical Illness

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Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away ten vintage classics by Aldous Huxley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ray Bradbury, Anne Frank, and others. Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) reblog this post and 2) be following macrolit. (Yes, I will check. :P) I will randomly choose a winner on October 15, at which time I’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, I’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

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This is money cat. He only appears every 1,383,986,917,198,001 posts. If you repost this in 30 seconds he will bring u good wealth and fortune.

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The title tells all: Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World. Author Linda Hirshman’s joint biography of the first and second woman to serve on the nation’s highest court is a gossipy, funny, sometimes infuriating and moving tale of two women so similar and yet so different.

Our own Nina Totenberg interviewed Hirshman – you can find the story here.

And of course, we can’t pass up this opportunity for Notorious RBG image macros!

– Petra

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My family’s native language, which I grew up speaking, is far from a niche language. Bengali is the seventh most common native language in the world, sitting ahead of the eighth (Russian) by a wide margin, with as many native speakers as French, German, and Italian combined. And yet, on the Internet, Bengali is very much a second-class citizen – as are Arabic (#5), Hindi (#4), and Mandarin (#1) – any language which is not written with the Latin alphabet. The very first version of the Unicode standard did include Bengali. However, it left out a number of important characters. Until 2005, Unicode did not have one of the characters in the Bengali word for “suddenly”. Instead, people who wanted to write this everyday word had to combine three separate, unrelated characters. For English-speaking teenagers, combining characters in unexpected ways, like writing ‘w’ as ‘\/\/’, used to be a way of asserting technical literacy through “l33tspeak” – a shibboleth for nerds that derives its name from the word “elite”. But Bengalis were forced to make similar orthographic contortions just to write a simple email: ত + ্ + ‍ = ‍ৎ (the third character is the invisible “zero width joiner”). Even today, I am forced to do this when writing my own name. My name is not only a common Indian name, but one of the top 1,000 names in the United States as well. But the final letter has still not been given its own Unicode character, so I have to use a substitute… I am not the only one who has trouble writing their name correctly in Unicode. Linguistically, East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean have distinct writing systems. Some (but not all) of the characters trace their lineage back to a common set, but even these characters, known as Han characters, began to diverge and evolve independently over two thousand years ago. The Unicode Consortium has launched a very controversial project known as Han Unification: an attempt to create a limited set of characters that will be shared by these so-called “CJK languages.” Instead of recognizing these languages as having their own writing systems that share some common ancestry, the Han unification process views them as mere variations on some “true” form. To help English readers understand the absurdity of this premise, consider that the Latin alphabet (used by English) and the Cyrillic alphabet (used by Russian) are both derived from Greek. No native English speaker would ever think to try “Greco Unification” and consolidate the English, Russian, German, Swedish, Greek, and other European languages’ alphabets into a single alphabet. Even though many of the letters look similar to Latin characters used in English, nobody would try to use them interchangeably. ҭЋаt ωoulδ βε σutragєѳuѕ. Even though our language is exempt from this effort, Han unification is particularly troubling for Bengali speakers to hear about. The rhetoric is a blast from our own colonial past, when the British referred to Indian languages pejoratively as “dialects”. Depriving their colonial subjects of distinct linguistic identities was a key tactic in justifying their brutal rule over an “uncivilized” people.

I Can Text You A Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name – Aditya Mukerjee (via tikkunolamorgtfo)

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The Two Little Words That Can Change a Life  

Pamela Schuller’s case of Tourette’s syndrome almost forced her out of the Jewish community completely. But a few lessons from Moses and improv comedy helped turn things around. In this personal, uproarious talk, Pamela shares her story and an important perspective on the role of difference. For more inspired Jewish ideas, check out: www.elitalks.org

Pamela Schuller, URJ Regional Director of Youth Engagement & Inclusion Specialist / Comedian

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And she’s Jewish! Mazel Tov!

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Buffy Sainte-Marie on the set of Sesame Street

“Sesame Street originally contacted me to say the alphabet. I said, “Have you ever done any aboriginal programming?” I worked with them for the next five and a half years, brought them to different reservations. They never tried to stereotype me.  I taught the Count how to count in Cree. Just a year into Sesame Street I found out I was pregnant. I was doing three shows a day with a baby on my hip, I asked them, “What about doing a segment on breastfeeding?” Big Bird is sitting in his nest and I’m breast-feeding Cody. Big Bird said, “That’s a funny way to feed a baby.” I said, “It’s not the only way but he gets everything he needs and I get to cuddle him.” We were being seen by 72 countries three times a day. What an opportunity to make the world better.””

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Cast members of the original Star Trek TV series attending the Space Shuttle Enterprise’s rollout ceremony, Palmdale, California, September 1976. (L to R, Leonard Nimoy, George Takei, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan). [2998x1999] history-museum.tumblr.com

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Former United States President and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Ensign Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn (Smith) Carter got married soon after Jimmy Carter’s graduation from the Naval Academy in 1946. [570x796] history-museum.tumblr.com

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