Chilean mining executive Leonardo Farkas has written $10,000 checks to each of the 33 miners that are being rescued from a collapsed mine in Chile after being trapped for more than two months.
The fate of our country won\’t be decided by a politician. It will be determined by a comedian. Not long before Jon Stewart announced his Rally to Restore Sanity, he told a New York magazine writer why he and his crew on \”The Daily Show\” would never do something like that. \”We\’re not activists,\” he said. \”Maybe the nice thing about being a comedian is never having full belief in yourself to know the answer. So you can say all this stuff, but underneath, you\’re going, \’But of course, I\’m f—ing idiotic.\’ It\’s why we don\’t lead a lot of marches.\”
Jon Stewart did his show, business as usual, on Rosh Hashanah this year. That night, when his interview guest, Meghan McCain, daughter of Senator John McCain, greeted him with \”Happy New Year,\” Stewart looked uncharacteristically nonplussed for a nanosecond, before replying, \”What? Huh? See you in Times Square tonight.\”
“And God said to Avram: ‘Go forth, for your [best interest], from your land and from the place of your birth and from the house of your father to the land I will show you’ ” (Genesis 12:1).
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