How Do You Jew
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Book Review: Anansi Boys
This paragraph from Neil Gaiman’s wonderful book of mythology, love, intrigue, and travel made me want to hug the author: It was sort of like Macbeth, thought Fat Charlie, an hour later; in fact, if the witches in Macbeth had been four little old ladies and if, instead of stirring cauldrons and intoning dread incantations,…
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Debates? Who needs debates?
Too many words. You know what they say about pictures…
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Palin for President. No, really.
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Someone please tell me again why anyone would vote for this guy or anyone in his party?
Also, how much do you think the Obama people would have to spend to buy this from The Daily Show and use it as the basis for their ad campaign from now until November? and
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Funny, but No
I’ve mentioned Shoebox before, particularly their “Funny, but No” cards – greeting cards that don’t make the cut, even for the slightly off-center attitude this “Tiny Little Division of Hallmark” generally displays. They used to just publish half a dozen or so examples once a week in written form. They recently updated their website and…
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Our civilization is doomed, reason #7080-175903
I just got off the phone with a teller at my banking institution. I had to call in to transfer some money from our joint savings account into our joint checking account, and to my lovely wife’s checking account. I don’t need to tell you why, I just need you to understand that I’m talking…
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Our civilization is doomed, reason #128,212
I know I need to fix some stuff with my blog (apparently the comments link is broken, and I need to spiff up my theme and do a bunch of other things, like, you know, post and stuff), but sometimes stories jump out at me so much that I have to post them immediately. Linked…
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Hope for humanity
I refuse to admit that I’m overstating things when I say this makes me feel better about the human race, at least for four and a half minutes: Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo. Spotted in the comments: my son died in iraq 7 weeks ago, and this video allowed…
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A Day In Israel: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 – 13th of Tamuz, 5768
0830 We got up and started getting ready for our day. This included a light breakfast for us and Hadarya. 0900 My friend, roommate, and rabbi Scott, called to tell me that Channel 10 News was covering the prisoner exchange in the north, in case I was interested. I was, of course, so I turned…
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