Posted previously on Our Salon

Jonathan Wolfman recently posted about Jews For Jesus. Questions came up in the comments (on Open Salon) about the legitimacy of so-called “Messianic Judaism” and, in another context, about being “half Jewish.” Half Jewish is mainly an ethnic desi… Read full post »

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In many places, if you can't drill down for water you can drink, you can't live there.

This doesn't count because it's an aside:  Happy Mothers' Day Read full post »

Also posted on OurSalon

This is the latest in a series of posts about my late son, born in April of 1994, died January 8, 2012.  If you haven't followed any of the other posts in this series, it helps to know that J had severe cerebral palsy which, thank God, did… Read full post »

Previously posted on OurSalon

Earlier this month, the Guardian (a British newspaper) announced that a lot of information has recently been released about money that the world's wealthy hide in offshore tax havens. Apparently, the former chief economist at McKinsey estimated that the wealt… Read full post »

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Previously posted on OurSalon

I've recently encountered racism from someone actually capable of thinking. In the event there are more like him out there, and even in the event that some harboring racist tendencies are capable of thinking but don't tend to apply that process to their racial reactions,… Read full post »

Double-posted as usual

I hate it when Rand Paul is right about anything but if a Republican administration had said what Eric Holder said about drones, this blog site would have lit up like a Christmas tree.

Published previously (but very recently) on Our Salon

The game took place on the University of Maryland, College Park campus. My wife was a grad student there at the time. I've only seen a few college games live in my life. This one was a women's game. It took place on Feb.… Read full post »

Steel Breeze issued an open call on OurSalon for Your Best Stuff. I decided to answer over there with this post, originally posted 5/29/10. (The BP references will make a lot more sense if you keep the original date in mind.)

Original Title:  Regulation is Good For Business

I don't know what I… Read full post »

Originally posted 2/21/11, almost precisely two years ago

This follows my previous post

from Our Salon 

The answer was just in Money News:

http://www.moneynews.com/Outbrain/billionaires-dump-economist-stock...

The answer, in a nutshell, is that a few prominent billionaires are divesting American consumer stocks because they don't trust continued consumer spending. The… Read full post »

from OurSalon

as usual, posted elsewhere first

I was taking my daughter to Bat Mitzvah tutoring. That entails parking on one side of a big field, walking across it to a two-story classroom building and walking up stairs (though there is an elevator). The other day we were late, so I told… Read full post »

Previously published on OurSalon

My cousin took this picture and sent it to me. This gravestone stands in the fairly new Jewish cemetery in Stowe, VT. It is, as you can see, the only gravestone in the cemetery.

I find this picture interesting because of my initial reaction to it. I… Read full post »

I often have reason to visit my daughter's middle school, for a variety of reasons, like to refill her lunch account. When you enter the building, for security reasons you have to go to the office and get a visitor's pass. You fill in some information, look into this little camera… Read full post »

published earlier on OurSalon

I've had a conversation with another blogger over a long period of time and over multiple posts, and we have never reached agreement. It has to do with two views of morality. I devoted a pair of posts to this issue on Open Salon, one entitled Dirty Hands… Read full post »

Previously published (barely) on OurSalon


Almost a week ago, I posted a poem called Pointless. It went like this:

I

suppose that

I

could attempt

to

write poetry

but

the fact remains

that

I don't have the beginnings

of

a clue as to

what

I'm doing.

Then there were a couple of pictures. The pictures were just there to… Read full post »

previously published on OurSalon (by roughly one minute)

Out of every hundred bucks in the United States, the poorest 40% of the population collectively owns about thirty cents.

It doesn't snow where we are much, but it did last night. I'm including a link here because the other site I blog on allows much larger photographs, and this post consists of photographs. Five of them. Enjoy if you go over and look.

http://oursalon.ning.com/profiles/blogs/good-morning

Previously Published at Our Salon   (by a few minutes)


 

Last Sunday was my son's Unveiling, a Jewish ceremony where we reveal the gravestone. It's tyically (but not always) done about a year after the death. The anniversary of his death, at least according to the Roman calendar,… Read full post »

This is part of a comment I wrote on one of my own posts, Absurd (on Our Salon), on Jan. 5

Occupy [Wall Street] is a tangent. Occupy is one version of the canary in the mine. What I can't for the life of me understand is why the business community… Read full post »