The point of this story isn't the larger conflict -- in which both sides have committed atrocities -- but rather, the point is the persistance of our humanity.

This little Palestinian zoo reminds me of a story from the first Gulf War, when Israeli citizens, under the threat of Iraqi missiles, attended a scheduled concert anyway, in their gas masks.

Humans don't just survive, we LIVE.

Talk about pop art!

I can haz communion?

All carved with a bit of sharp cheddar?

The cheese works because she's crackers.

Sure it worked, but the mouse dyed.

This zoo is dyeing for a good exhibit.

You might take a bullet for someone else, but you can't take a pea for them.

Available at your locl panda panaderia.

Yes, poor children, that they should be in High School and not be able to write 200 words on a subject. Mr. McCourt had to lower his standards for what he expected of them, no two ways about it. He had to backtrack, and teach them skills they should already have had.

I will grant that it was a very creative way to get their minds working, but what might he have accomplished with students who already possessed the minimum skills expected of them?

Imagine the powerful temptation to laser the neighbor's cat.

Yes, that is one crazy cracker.

Such shocking behaviour.

Poor children. Yes, let's do move the goalpost closer to them.

I can feel sorry for someone and still lock them away without remorse.