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 […]
Tag Archives: Culture
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 […]
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 […]
The Risks of Living in a Safe World
2015-02-26 – I have a Facebook friend who seems to be an anti-vaxxer. Maybe he is and maybe he isn’t. You can’t always tell from Facebook. My Facebook friend is […]
Seltzer Boy—Two Cents Plain
2015-02-15 – It seems that sparkling water is popular again. That’s what Jill Berman at the Huffington Post says. She says that “Sparkling Water Is the New Soda.” When she […]
Big Pharma vs. Big Insurance
2015-02-08 – One of the knocks on the widely accepted wisdom that #vaccineswork is that this knowledge is corrupted because of Big Pharma. The idea is that Big Pharma falsified […]
#vaccineswork, Politicians not so much
2015-02-03 – Oy vey and a half! Has the world come to this? Ted Cruz makes more sense on a public issue than Hillary Clinton! The issue is vaccines and […]
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