The traditional Halloween version involves a basic negotiation, bartering a yummy sweet treat in lieu of the soaping of one’s windows or the TP-ing of one’s trees. This is done in costume to protect the identity of the perpetrators, (not unlike the original, fake Indian Tea Party), and has become…
It’s about time…right? I mean, how much shit do people have to take before they get pissed off enough to mount a serious protest? Of course, fellow tweeter/bloggers, shouting with the tips of our fingers, clacking away at a keyboard, hardly compares to getting all stinky and hoarse while marching…
With deference to Herman Cain, my “8-8-8” plan simply makes more sense. It’s palindromic, it works both as a mirror image and upside down and, if you happen to look at it from the side, (either side), it’s infinity times 3 which is…well, a lot. Here’s how it works: 8…
Few manmade things and fewer people really change the world in significant ways and it seems that too many of those ways are seldom changes for the better. Steve Jobs was the exception to that unwritten rule. Although he didn’t invent the personal computer or the portable music player or…
Contrary to the arbitrary date above, everyone knows it’s really Tishri 4, 5772. For those of you who are thinking, ‘whoa…but wasn’t Thursday Rosh Hashannah, and isn’t Nissan the first month of the Jewish calendar?’ Quite true, but don’t get your tfillin in a bunch. Someone much sager than you…