Sunday was both Mother's Day and Holocaust Remembrance Day.

I took the family to the Shriner's Circus - a fairly low-rent affair, but plenty entertaining for a four-year-old and way more reasonable in price than Barnum & Bailey and you don't have to mortgage the house to buy a battery-operated toy or two. They also have pony and elephant rides during the intermission. Very good for kids. Previous years were better, though. Now if my daughter could only get over her fear of clowns...

Oh, the show had one of the best trained-dog acts I've ever seen, and a message to the beautiful showgirls who also do some of the acrobatic stuff - one word: Atkins. 'Nuff said.

There was a ceremony held at Boston's Holocaust Memorial which was threatened to be demonstrated against by a Nazi group, and that demonstration counter-demonstrated by an Anarchist group (hey, anything for attention). This caused some concern to the organizers of the prime event leading up to the day until it was decided that the best thing to do would be to ignore it all and let the police handle it - something they do well. A good choice considering the Nazis amount to a small group of losers who are usually outnumbered by the police who show up to surround them and protect the crowd from them and them from the crowd - as you can see from their previous appearance at the Boston for Israel Rally last year. In this case they were being faced down by an even larger group of Anarchist losers, so there were even more cops on hand.

Dowbrigade has a lengthy report on the day with many pictures. Take a look. (via Carpundit)