117.05/ When I saw the Simpsons clip below recently with my son, I had to explain that it's a real song! It's bizarre without the context, and still funny, but when you KNOW the reality it's so much funnier.
117.07/ This is true (I could add so much). Bottom line: philanthropists of all levels are the decision makers and "leaders" more than any professional staff. Just the truth. Ask Kohelet.
117.08/ I quoted the concept of "there's no tomorrow" in the context of playoffs, causing consternation in the house, and explained I learned about it, like most of my early sports knowledge, from Peanuts.
117.10/ My physician brother is having tech problems & was advised to uninstall & reinstall. I worked in tech support once upon a time & this is what we say when we don't really know what's wrong. I suggested to him that "reinstall" is the equivalent to "lose weight" with doctors
117.11/ Walker's hypocrisy isn't a problem for the GOP b/c, like Tuberville, he's not supposed animate his own ideas in the senate. He's just supposed to vote the way they tell him. In fact, the craven lack of convictions helps! It's proof he'll follow orders for personal gain.
And this is the source of the below clip, which I quote often: "clean livin' prevailed" b98.tv/video/bunny-li…
117.13/ Proud of my wife (Dr. Rebecca L. Cypess) for synthesizing ideas to create a new definition of Environmental Arts. Check it out! masongross.rutgers.edu/about-us/resea…
117.14/ Trying to explain to non-Jews that Jewish holidays aren't vacations, they aren't really relaxing; it's a Holy-Day and that's a lot of work. They remind me of academic conferences - some fun with your friends but otherwise exhausting work.
117.15/ I've heard our enemies say Jews have space laser weather machines and we control media & banks but we also can't walk in a circle for hoshanahs without getting into a traffic jam. #Sukkot
117.16/ A #lulav does have a weapon feel - how many of us have cuts/pokes from the leaves? - so I have in my head a green-lightsaber lulav holder. Maybe a thermal-detonator shaped box for the #etrog?
117.17/ My father had a great insight on #Sukkot about how both Matzah & living in a Sukkah are a way of forcing economic equality over the festive days. Everyone, rich & poor, are made to eat poor bread & live in flimsy shacks while also commanded to give charity & hospitality.
I mean, White Supremacy is so strong in the US that we have military bases named after men whose claim to fame was their success in murdering US soldiers (the job of a "Confederate" officer was to kill members of the US army).
219b.03/ I'm labeling the posts in this week "219b" because I messed up last week and started numbering things 219 instead of 218 and I'll be darned if I pay Moosk for an edit button. Not sure if I'll remember to do this all week or recall what I was doing when I return to these.
218.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #KiTavo 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. 12 pages. drive.google.com/file/d/1zjmFJj…
219.03/ It's stuff like this that makes almost any wild idea about the capabilities of technology seem plausible. The good guys just did SOMETHING to make beepers remotely blow up. That's not something I could even imagine existing and yet here we are.
217.02/ Due to a combination of having a maddening schedule over the past few weeks and having Twitter owned and run horribly by the Divorced Incel King, it's been very hard to write anything.
217.03/ #ChochmatNashim for #KiTetze 5783 (last year)
@ChochmatNashim.
Downloadable PDF with Divrei Torah from Orthodox women scholars on the weekly parsha and other topics of the day. 15 Pages. No time to do a new one this year before Shabbas. drive.google.com/file/d/1NucT9p…
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.