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Category Archives: Personal
Who goes shopping for a big screen on Thanksgiving?
People who don’t give a fig about America. By the look of the KABC TV cameras outside Best Buy tonight, these Thanksgiving shoppers do not appear to be descendants of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower. I’d rather be alone, 90% … Continue reading
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The Attack (2012 Movie)
Good movie, except the plot twist about a Christian Palestinian suicide bomber, of which there have been none. Only Muslim Palestinians blow themselves up. The movie says that people just snap, that’s why they blow themselves up, but why do … Continue reading
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The Day I Learned How To Make The Pain Go Away
It was a Sabbath afternoon. God, how I hated the Sabbath. We were Seventh-Day Adventists at Avondale College in Cooranbong (comes from the Aboriginal word “Kour-an-bong”, meaning “rocky bottom creek”) and you weren’t allowed to do anything fun on the … Continue reading
The Wrong Thing
* A Jew I know in Hawaii complains he can’t find a rabbi to marry him to a shiksa on October 4, 2014, which happens to be Yom Kippur. * It is no more a good idea to interact with … Continue reading
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On The Road Again
Something broke in my system in February of 1988 so that since then, when I exercise much past a mile or two daily, I quickly or slowly get a Chronic Fatigue Syndrome relapse that matches exactly the level of my … Continue reading
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Wisdom From Kids
This 11yo boy asks me at shul: “Do you have kids?” Luke: “No.” Boy: “Are you married?” Luke: “No.” Boy: “So you’re single.” Luke: “Yes.” Boy: “It’s lame to be single.” I wasn’t bothered by the kid’s comment. I thought … Continue reading
Seeking The Thing That Will Make You Great
Remember how miserable I felt running my five marathons at age 12? Remember the misery of the first one, the Hidden Valley marathon, which took me four hours and 43 minutes and I was almost beaten by that 70-plus year … Continue reading
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I Have The Answer!
As I go through life, I see people with all sorts of problems that could be solved if they would only listen to me, and yet people don’t listen to me. They look at me and they see little that … Continue reading
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Most Of My Girlfriends Were Simply The Best I Could Do At The Time
I’m reading Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find and Keep Love and am struck by the description of avoidants as longing for the phantom ex or dreaming of the perfect partner, “one … Continue reading
Brett Favre Admits Memory Loss
The DrudgeReport.com links to this story: Favre went on to say that he has started to experience memory loss, which has frightened him. “This was a little shocking to me that I couldn’t remember my daughter playing youth soccer,” he … Continue reading
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