Popping Safran's Balloon

Our man Avi said:

I couldn’t help but wonder if something synchronistic, maybe even meaningful, lay in the act that the day designated by the rabbis to pray for [the defeat of any attempts to tamper with the Israeli haredi community’s educational system] turned out to be the one on which New Yorkers celebrated the Giants’ win – in the fact that what was [a day of prayer] for some happened to become a joyous celebration-day for others... So perhaps it’s not too fanciful to hope that Tuesday’s confluence of parade and prayer proves to be a good sign – for a positive response to the latter.

A smugly self-statisfied Safran-ism, if ever there was one, to which Garnel Ironheart supplied the perfect rejoinder:

Of course, if you’re a Patriots fine [SIC fan], Tuesday’s parade means that anyone who thinks they’re perfect, the ultimate example of their culture, and without self-doubt as to the rightness of their cause can be felled at the most unexpected time. Does that mean Chareidim in Boston have reason to be worried instead of celebratory at the Superbowl result?
Comment by Garnel Ironheart — February 8, 2008

Meanwhile Hitler reacts to the Patriot collapse.
[This is a parody of a scene from The Downfall in which Hitler rages at the news that Berlin is lost]