80.02/ #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight continues. This week: "Apollo 13" - a family custom when someone is recovering from having wisdom teeth taken out. And it's pretty great.
80.03/ The #NYR won 7-3, scoring 5 unanswered, and that score is larger than the current 49ers-Packers game. Sports can be weird.
80.04/ Packers lose! Setting up for another 49ers-Bengals Superbowl? Anyway, Twitter is awash with great dunks on Aaron "RedHat McHorse-Dewormer" Rogers losing another home playoff game. Here's one of my favorites:
80.05/ My thread about the #NFL games yesterday and the wonderful unifying feeling of everyone getting together with one voice and mocking the reputational and athletic collapse of Aaron "MAGA Troll" Rogers.
80.06/ Someone asked if anyone fell from grace as fast as Aaron Rogers and, no contest, JK R*wling is the worst since Lindbergh. JKR: famous billionaire artist of universally loved children's books who revealed with gusto that she's a dangerous bigot en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_L…
89.07/ Thank God we still have public libraries. If anything is the thin line separating civilization from barbarism, it's the libraries.
89.08/ Watching #LARvsTB and I'm finding it harder and harder to listen to Collinsw0rth. We're debating which is worse: CC's oleaginous sycophancy or J0e Buck's smarmy indifference?
(To test it, I should count how many times I need you yell "shut up" per hour, SU/h)
80.09/ Rams just scored so it's 26-3 and they better not go for two, and make it, because 28-3 initiates a sequence against Brady that gets pretty ugly. #NFL
80.10/ This is a weird #NFL post-season feeling... all the bad guys have been eliminated and now I can just sit and enjoy the games. Patriots, Tom Brady, Aaron Rogers, Dallas... all gone, in various forms of humiliation, too. I think I like it!
80.11/ It's #InternationalHolocaustDay - ironic context to learn that bigots in TN just banned #Maus from a school. Yet another sign that America is growing in aggressive bigotry
80.12/ Mazal tov to @temasmith on this important appointment! This is excellent, welcome news and it demonstrates that the ADL is committed to addressing the issues of the entire Jewish people.
80.13/ Over the past 6 years I've seen too many people who should know better - yet habituated to the news moving at the speed of Twitter - demand the Dems do everything at once. I'm def. not saying "they got this" - I'm saying: be reasonable.
80.14/ I'm relieved that the inveterate cheaters, Bonds and Clemens, don't get in the HOF. Their road is now much harder, which is a new feeling for them, given how much they took shortcuts & stole glory from others.
80.15/ As many have said, Peterson & Rogan are a dumb person's idea of "smart" just as Trump (ym'sh) & his grubby trash-scented gilded-lily aesthetic was a dumb person's idea of rich. All 3 are con-men exploiting an audience of grasping aggrieved wannabes.
I'm named for my father's oldest & youngest uncles whose entire families were murdered in the Shoah. I don't know when they were killed, where, nor the names of everyone of the 100s of my direct relatives who were killed.
80.20/ "Kids are on their phone all the time!" Look, crankypants, a smartphone is almost literally a library mixed with the mall. It allows you to read every & any newspaper or book while connecting you with everyone you know and play every song in existence SIMULTANEOUSLY.
80.22a/ My teenage kids asked why the news is intimating that Biden will nominate Harris for SCOTUS. I explained that the take-havers (1) know about only 3 Black women - Harris, Michelle Obama & Oprah - so they assume they're the answer to every BW question.
80.22b/ (2) These people are deathly afraid of Harris getting even more power. It's of a piece with thinking Biden will resign soon to make her president.
80.23/ #BaruchHashem! Thank God for these now commonplace miracles, my two youngest children have received their #VaccineBoost just moments ago. So grateful to have access to this life-saving medication. #ThankYouBiden
80.25/ Our house voted and we all agree that adding another #Adar is a great idea, but why stop there? How about a third Adar and - to make room - zap Tammuz? Sure, we'd lose days 1-16 which is the best summer vacation time, but OTOH we'd push of Pesach for another month.
80.30/ Reading Twitter, esp. when I'm away doing other projects, feels like reading the footnotes without the article. It's disconcerting at times but usu. I get enough of the gist to spot bad faith mobbing.
80.32/ I'm not a lawyer so I don't know the unintended consequences this could unleash but prima-facie this looks like a long overdue idea: liability insurance & safety training for legal gun ownership
80.34/ Very true (BTW, I was surprised, as an adult, that Irkutsk wasn't more important than I was led to believe) and yet playing Risk demonstrated to me the massive strategic importance of Ukraine, so there's that.
IMO: the MSM pie is now so small that the people clinging to high profile jobs are (1) inherently or artificially ignoring & thus protecting the fascism on the Right and/or (2) ruthlessly circling the wagons to preserve their status/jobs.
80.39/ This is a very good answer. It's more expansive - and thus has a higher degree of validity - than my go-to of "the high cost of Jewish living" which is paramount in Modern Orthodoxy.
80.40/ I agree. It's similar to the distinction between those who say "I suffered so you should too" (which I consider wicked) and "I suffered so nobody else should" which is the core value of the "Golden Rule."
80.41/ Connected to 80.36 about Biden's response to a Fox troll: this is pure manufactured outrage and the performative & artificial nature is clear to people outside the bubble.
80.43/ The numbers for athletes definitely demonstrates the self-destruction involved in investing in cryptononsense. I hope normies stay away before they're Tulip-bubbled into bankrupcy.
80.46/ This is about Lakewood, Ohio - a suburb of Cleveland - but for a glorious few minutes I thought this was in a Haredi section of Lakewood, NJ and that a type of joy that's nigh impossible to manufacture
212.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #Devarim and #TishaBeAv 5783 (LAST YEAR). @ChochmatNashim
Downloadable pdf with working links of Divrei Torah by Orthodox women scholars on the parsha and other topics of the week. 22 pages. drive.google.com/file/d/1TH6ApN…
212.03/ This is an excellent, spot-on, thread. I've said a lot of this stuff for years.
[I'm a life-long Democrat born in Pittsburgh & raised in small towns (Binghamton), rural areas (Ithaca), and the South (Memphis). Walz is a familiar archetype to me.]
211.02/ It would behoove this law prof. to learn about the Jewish law concept of "chazakah" - the legal presumption for what a person means/intends. So, um, Trump (ym'sh) fomented an armed insurrection. He wants to end Democracy.
210.03/ I had too many sleepless nights over the last three weeks because of the drumbeat against Biden b/c there was too much smoke for there not to be fire. What kept me steady was my trust of his judgement. So if he thinks this is wise, then I logically have to support it.
209.02/ Following the assassination attempt on TFG yesterday - an act I condemn; ballots not bullets - the reaction by news agencies has been unhinged. But I'm singling out The Daily Beast and Politico who are lionizing TFG using very disturbing rhetoric. I've had to unfollow.
209.03/ I'm furious that so many in Congress are playing this dangerous game but I'm reminding myself that (1) the MSM has been fabricating stories & amplifying mythological pro-GOP nonsense for a while now & (2) I trust Biden's abilities to handle this like he did NATO.
208.02/ Demographically, I should be part of the "elite" but the past two weeks showed me that I'm a solid true-blue member of the Democratic "base" because I'm standing by Biden-Harris & have a white-hot rage against the media (& the cowards in my party) trying to take us down.
208.03/ People ask "Why haven't the media learned their lesson from 'But Her Emails?' in 2016"?! But the answer is QED - they did learn their lesson: that with relentless bad-faith attacks they can knock out the Democrat & elect a cash-cow tabloid buffoon. They know & want this.