I, Too, Came to Like Country Music
2015-03-31 – When I read about Ted Cruz’s conversion to country music, I thought: “Hey! Me too!” I can’t date my conversion to 9/11, like he did, but my change of […]
Monthly Archives: March 2015
She’s the Handy-Person in the Family
2015-03-29 – My wife Kit wears the pants in the family. So do I, of course, I don’t want to get arrested (though I see that sans-culottes has taken on […]
Crispier Than Thou
2015-03-26 – I don’t eat a lot of potato chips. I did once and I have fond memories of their potato-ey goodness. But I try (often unsuccessfully) to avoid empty […]
I’m Jewish, She’s Not
2015-03-24 – Sunday’s post (Piety Porn) earned me a private request to write about interfaith marriage. That was because I mentioned that I am Jewish and my wife is not. […]
Piety Porn
2015-03-22 – I grew up in a Conservative Jewish family. Conservative, not Orthodox. We had a kosher home, we observed all the holidays, we went to the synagogue on the […]
What Is a Victim Entitled To?
2015-03-19 – Someone hurts you. What now? What are you entitled to? If you can get your assailant into court, you are entitled to be “made whole,” as they say […]
Optimism About Nihilism
2015-03-17 – The snow is nearly gone, but the filth of winter emerges in the melt. A season’s worth of soot-from-the-air and pebbles-from-the-disintegrating-street. This is not poetry. This is my […]
What We Need Is an Official Fake Congress
2015-03-15 – What we need is an official Fake Congress. When I first started thinking about this, I thought it might be a good idea to have a place to […]
New Hoo Hoo Math
2015-03-12 – I saw a post on Facebook today screaming about how awful the new Common Core math standards are. Like the old math standards were any good. I haven’t […]
Safeword Is Needed in BDSM Politics
2015-03-10 – It seems that liberals are now petitioning to get 47 GOP senators charged with treason for sending a letter to Iran’s leaders telling them that any deal they […]
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