“The Fugative Resembles A Potato.”

Armenia sounds like an interesting place to visit. Granted, all places sound interesting to visit to me, but today it is Armenia. I really have no interest in visiting Western Europe, save for the major battlefields of WW1 and 2. It all seems so “overtourist-ed” to me. I have never been west of the German border, so I cannot speak with utmost certainty, but I do not discount it completely. I think it is just the major cities that turn me off. A week in the French country might be wonderful! I have no idea where I am going with this.

The MARC Book for today anyway, is still Tough Jews. I am almost done with it. It was a very dense read. Not so much that the writer was writing over my head, but that the descriptions, situations, and names all formed into an intricate web of information that had to be dissected with utmost care in order to get the most out of what the pages were telling you. It kind of turns into a “Jewish fist-raiser” book. I don’t have any problem with this, because it explains why it did this. It talks about a time before “Jews didn’t know they couldn’t fight back” meaning pre-holocaust. It explains that this breed of Jewish Gangsters never once considered the fact that they could be considered weak in another person’s mindset. Most of them were killed, captured and then killed, or arrested, tried, then electrocuted before WW2 ended and the full scope of Germany’s doings could be revealed, but it is an interesting look at an era that, according to the book, even Jewish scholars don’t like to talk about, as they say the trials of the war years formed a new generation of Jew both in mindset and demeanor, and that a “Jewish Gangster” never existed.

It’s a neat book. I promised Vanessa I would read DUNE next, if only for the fact that I can then reference Sandworms without her reprimanding me for not reading the book and referencing things I have no business referencing. She’s like so many bad Vietnam War Vet Jokes. (example: “How many Vietnam Vets does it take to screw in a light bulb?” [' I don't know, how many Vietnam Vets DOES it take to--']“YOU DON’T KNOW YOU WEREN’T THERE!”*

Well, I am going there, cue the CCR.

*DISCLAIMER: I am putting this in to soothe my own conscience. I admire and respect all veterans of all wars on all sides. In my travels I have spoke with many of these folks and hear the same story: ” It was just business. They were trying to do what they were supposed to do, and I was trying to do what I was supposed to do.”