Moyers does a great job here. He describes the conflation of "Jew" and "Israel" but does not explain the fallacy, exactly. Jews are not Israels unless they live there or are citizens, and many Israelis are not Jews. But simplistic thinking about religion and nationality leads to attacks on Jews who have nothing to do with Israel. Conversely, many Jews and non-Jews champion the Israeli cause without reserve. In my opinion they should go over there, live there, and suffer with "their" people or otherwise shut up.

Moyers puts the stress in the right place. People are dying.

Johnson sounds great. We sure need some hope right now.

Yes, blow up the Hamas infrastructure, such as the American International school. That'll show them!

All the decent people left Israel ages ago.

Will torturers be held to account? What will happen at Guantanamo? If it's closed will prisoners simply be scattered around to various locations to be tortured some more? Or will we finally get out of the torture business?

I am totally not on board with Obama and friends after this insult.

You really had to be there. To make an intellectual out of oneself in the cultural wasteland of the Southern California of her youth was an extraordinary accomplishment.

Schindler's List, while powerful, felt American to me. I never got over feeling these were Americans playing Germans and European Jews.

This confrontation between victim and daughter of perpetrator, while dramatic, is an opportunity for bathos.

Then we hear well it's human nature what can you do.

I think we need to examine the particulars of genocide. The specifics of how they were carried out. So when you see one coming you can work to stop it or get out of the way before it gets you. And work to change our child rearing practices so that cruelty is not ingrained in people to the point where it seems natural.

A good film to see on the subject of Post WW II denial of wrongdoing is the poorly titled "The Nasty Girl," a bad translation of "Das schreckliche Mädchen," which shows how people literally tried to cover up their crimes after the war.

A little teary eyed. Thank you, Anne.

Are you suggesting sensible solutions to our country's ills? Silly boy. We're consumers. We want what we want, and we want it now. About half of my fellow citizens are, shall we say, not too bright, and they love to drive around, because they can't think of anything else to do that seems like an activity. Also, they have arranged their lives in such a way that they can't get anywhere except by car. And it's a class issue, since the common folks think that only poor people use public transportation.

So you see, nothing can be done. This is America, where problems can no longer be solved, because people refuse to change their ways until their backs are absolutely against the wall.

Just speculating.

The issue is control. Control over one's sexuality and that of others. Control over women and children. The response to lack of control is all very often violence, sexual abuse, or desertion.

The monotheistic churches have a central premise the subordination of man to god and of women and children to man. Feminism is such a refutation of that belief that it is literally driving a lot of men crazy. Whole societies are now mobilized to stop the advance of women.

But they will not win. And gays will get their rights too. You can't put the genie back in the bottle.

I like what Rodriquez says about families solving problems of difference in the way they do, because love and solidarity override politics. That's real family values.

My MIL next door was nearly the death of me in her last years. She did not have Alzheimer's, but we were totally incompatible. Luckily, she had plenty of money, so we could hire caregivers. Even at that it was pretty awful. She died in her own home at age 97, completely spoiled, still firmly in control of everyone and everything around her. As it was, one of her caregivers died at age 55, and I'm sure part of it was from the stress of dealing with her.

I am still getting over the sheer unpleasantness of the whole situation and the damage it did me and my husband, the time it took away that I would rather have been spending with my kids and grandkids, things I wanted to do for myself, the trips not taken, and all the rest of it.

I've told my kids to put me in the Shady Pines Rest Home and don't feel the slightest guilty about it!

Palin is stupid. Paglia is confused. Stupid and confused are so yesterday.

Those paupers will be better off on a low salt diet. Most of us eat too much salt.