5 Links And A Joke Walk Into A Bar July 8, 2025July 9, 2025 I obviously don’t expect anyone to read all my posts, let alone click every link. And yet I can’t resist: 1. The Apprenticeship of Frank Yablans — just published 51 years after I wrote it. It has zero relevance to the problems of the world. (Which could be the best thing about it.) 2. Why Democrats Need Their Own Trump — Mark Cuban, anyone? 3. 20 US Bishops Join Interfaith Letter Against ICE Funding Boost in ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ — sure, but 2 Corinthians! Hunter Biden’s laptop! 4. Is Mamdani A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing? — one of you sent this in response to the two links I shared in yesterday’s post. I’d like to see Mamdani issue a point-by-point response. My guess — just a guess — is that it would satisfy many of us though certainly not all. One of the charges is that Mamdani said he would have the NYPD arrest Netanyahu if he came to New York. This seems an extreme position to take — and I hope he would not actually do it — but it seems a little less extreme when you consider that Canada, Ireland, Switzerland, Spain, Holland, and Italy would apparently do the same thing. I am totally on Israel’s side in the war against Hamas. Hamas has destroyed Gaza despite having been given the opportunity in 2005 to build a prosperous, peaceful society. Israel is absolutely not engaging in genocide, as I argued yesterday. And yet it can also reasonably be argued without being anti-Semitic, I think, that some of the charges against Netanyahu may be warranted. 5. Is Netanyahu A War Criminal? WRITE YOUR OWN DARK JOKE “A twice-impeached bully (with more than half the Senate voting to convict), a cheat, a liar, a felon, and an adjudicated rapist walk into a bar . . .” Your punchline, please?