Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place

People like Andy Martin would make life truly interesting in a bizarre sort of way–if they weren’t so horrifying.

When you read as much news copy as I do, you truly come to appreciate well-written journalism.  Jim Rutenberg’s profile of anti-Semite, anti-Muslim, anti-Obama, anti-judge political personality of the moment, Andy Martin, is delightfully written as it cuts the man and his “reputation” to the quick.

This passage in particular made me laugh:

His [Martin's] newfound prominence, and the persistence of his line of political attack…amazes those from his past.

“Well, that’s just a bookend for me,” said Tom Slade, a former chairman of the Florida Republican Party, whom Mr. Martin sued for refusing to support him. Mr. Slade said Mr. Martin was driven like “a run-over dog, but he’s fearless.”

Thank God for Southern idioms.  Without it American English would be drab and dreary.