I'd have thought "twit" would have been more appropriate. Funny the difference one letter makes. If you check back GUEST Rashi had just said "in light of what has been transpiring in Israel for the last several years leading up to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, and everything being orchestrated by the PLO". "Twit" would seem a not un-reasonable thing to say about someone who thought that the PLO assassinated Rabin.

As for Carlin and Gandhi, send us a PM if you want. But I'd have thought that talking about non-violence on this thread might be quite a healthy thread-drift. (It seems to be getting a bit absurdly overheated the last few threrads...)Or maybe quite a new thread would be fitting.

There are a lot of distorted ideas about Gandhi, as being some other-worldly naive dreamer.

Not true. Gandhi wasn't sentimental about non-violence - he once said (I paraphrase) that if he'd thought violence worked as a way of getting rid of evil, he reckoned he'd have gone for it - but it didn't, it just moved the evil around. And he also said that if the only alternative to non-resistance to evil was violent resistance, he'd choose that rather than giving in to it - but it wasn't. And he often stressed that any kind of resistance, non-violent or armed, involved the same willingness to accept the possibility of death.