Seasons

Even without the anagram, I would applaud "cyber-Amish gang". That would look good a a t-shirt. Is anyone selling something like that at www.cafepress.com?

Is anyone selling something like that at www.cafepress.com?

Well, there's a business opportunity for someone - with a logo of a smiley face wearing a black hat perhaps?

An anagram is a word made up of the letters from a different word, so "recap" is an anagram of 'pacer', for instance.

(my example is also a word that is a different word spelled backwards, but I forget what you call those...)

Anyway, you weren't talking to me, so I'll hush up now

Palindrome.

"I understand this is Bolton."
"Yeah."
"But you told me it was Ipswitch!"
"It was a pun."
"A pun?!?"
"No, not a pun... what's that other thing, where the words the same forwards as backwards?"
"A palindrome?"
"Yeah, that."
"But a palindrome for Bolton would be Notlob!"

It's funny though - palindromes take a very different set of pattern recognition skills from regular anagrams. I like to think I have a little skill at anagrammatizing, but I couldn't construct a palindrome to save my life.
Palindromes get exponentially harder the longer they are - the longest ones with any sensible meaning that I'm aware of are Bonaparte's apocryphal observation in exile "Able was I ere I saw Elba", and "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!", both reasonably well-known.
There are certain computer generated monstrosities (eg: http://www.norvig.com/pal2txt.html) which are superficially impressive, but I do find ultimately pretty pointless.

The alt.anagrams FAQ http://asdf.org/~anna/grams/faq.html#1.5 is well worth a read, with plenty of very cool examples of anagrams, antigrams, anugrams, trigrams, pangrams, you name it!

And now for something completely different—

"Tom and Jerry" as a nefarious Jewish plot:

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2006/02/tom_and_jerry_a_nefarious_jewi.php

wow. it is amazing how idiotic some people can get in attempting to secure their ideas of superiority over other people. that article was truly the work of a bona fide fool.

excuse me, not the article, rather the concept that the article was conveying.

With this, and all the deaths over those "Allah" comics, it really makes you wonder what this world is coming to.

The world needs its idiots, I'm firmly convinced of that. Though I do sometimes have trouble understanding why it needs quite so many of them - especially the hateful, warmongering kind.
But the world isn't "coming to" anything more than it ever has (I mean, it is always coming to something - it's just usually more of the same.) People have always irrationally hated each other, and set out to persecute their neighbours as often as they extend the hand of friendship to a stranger.
Maybe it will all become clear at the day of judgement. Or not.
In the meantime there is only one question to ask ourselves: do we want to be hateful, warmongering idiots ourselves?
And if not, the solution is surely pretty clear - refuse to hate anyone, even the idiots.

The problem is, that brings up the issue that led Einstien, a strict pacifist, to help develop the A-Bomb. His rationale was "Organized power can only be opposed by organized power". Don't get me wrong, I'm a hippy at heart, but it's a conundrum. Idiots in large groups, especially the violent ones, can't just be ignored, or left alone, most often. But, as Dr. Martin Luthor King pointed out, violence only begets violence. So how to proceed?

Choosing no to hate is not the same as chosing not to act. The trick is not to become the thing you are fighting.