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Putting the Cart before the Horse Perhaps

 The sign said Pre-Kart. I wondered what a pre-cart might be. A go-kart from the time before go-karts? Maybe something your parents pulled you in, like a wagon. Or maybe a go-kart before the time of wheels, and a Pre-Kart could be just a box. Or it could mean Pre-K Art, but by then I'd walked a long way past the sign and couldn't know.

Just Curious

 I looked up Semite, and learned the word comes from Shem, son of Noah, in the Bible. Then I learned it's a term that refers to all Semitic peoples--Jews, Arabs, and more. But the next place I looked said it only referred to people who speak Semitic languages, such as Jews, Arabs, and more... And the next said it refers to culture: Jews and Arabs again. So why isn't it antisemitic to oppose Palestinian Arabs?