Phases of the Moon
2013-08-27 – It is now dark when I leave the house in the morning. There was a bit of a haze in the sky this morning, so there were no […]
Tag Archives: Culture
On Your Left
2013-08-25 – I’ve written about this before, but I have to do it again. I hate bicyclists who say “on your left” as they overtake you on shared paths in […]
Best Dog In the Whole Wide House
2013-08-22 – If Tuesday’s count-your-blessings post didn’t make you want to puke, I’m going to press forward with my new-found positivity. Today I’m going to talk about how much I […]
Laughs and Tells Jokes
2013-08-20 – In 2004, I wrote the following post: “It is a Jewish tradition to count our blessings each day. There are blessings that form a part of the daily […]
Anger As a Cultural Value
2013-08-05 – Robert Reich writes about anger in America and chalks it up to social inequality, with a little help from the media and social media. I have no quarrel, […]
Rat Heaven
2013-08-13 – Scientists at the University of Michigan have discovered signs that rats have near-death experiences (NDEs) similar to those reported by humans when the heart stops beating and […]
Their Side of the Story
2013-08-04 – They say the chatter is like before 9/11. So we should be worried about an attack. So what’s the chatter about? Yeah, I suppose it’s about death […]
Burning Your Draft Card
2013-08-01 – A peculiar campaign by FreedomWorks to oppose the implementation of Obamacare calls on opponents to burn their Obamacare cards. Problem is, as many pundits have pointed out, […]
Pope Confused About Scripture
2013-07-30 – Pope Francis exhibited tiredness and confusion on the flight home from his first foreign trip as pope when he answered a reporter’s question about gays in the […]
Unintended Memorial
2013-07-27 – I hadn’t been in New York since before 9/11. That trip was for some sort of business that is long forgotten. What I do remember from that trip […]
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