I notice a handful of Asian women in Los Angeles wearing hospital masks. I suppose they want to avoid the flu. In at least one case, she’s wearing it to avoid contaminating others. It’s such a thoughtful gesture.
I love my experience of Asian-American culture. These Asians tend to be on time, to pay their bills, to be law abiding, educated, devoted to family, understated, courteous, wise and cuddly. They don’t panhandle and they don’t blast gangster rap.
* Zero Dark Thirty and Lincoln were not nearly as good as I hoped. Lincoln in particular was a drag. I don’t know why Spielberg thought this particular story about lobbying would be cinematic. A woman in shul told me she has tried a dozen times to get through LINCOLN and failed.
I think Moonrise Kingdom is my favorite movie of 2012. I also loved Flight with Denzel Washington.
* I was all prepared for a graphic torture scene at the beginning of Zero Dark Thirty. The scene turned out to be like a walk in the park when compared with the torture wreaked by this man’s jihadist cause.
* This old Persian guy patted my stomach in shul and told me to get to the gym. I’m 180 well-chiseled pounds on a 6′ frame. Others in shul call me, “The Waste” and “The Great Under-Achiever.”
* What do men want? Young clean flesh. Not graduate degrees and lots of confidence and other manly traits.
* It’s the attitude, stupid. Younger women are easier to deal with, they don’t feel so entitled. Did you know Osama had a hot hot young wife when he died? Less than half his age. If he deserved that (a hot young wife) then so do I.
I notice that many, perhaps most, women my age or older hate it when I date hot young women, but I don’t notice men hating high-status men who have their pick. Don’t hate the playa, hate the game!
* A few weeks ago, Dennis Prager did a couple of hours of his radio show on this topic: What’s better for a kid when his parents hate each other? To have them divorce in a civil manner, or to have them live together in a civil manner out of obligation, both yearning for the other parent to die so they can be set free from the bonds of marriage? Most callers to Dennis said they would rather their parents divorced.
* It is a mitzvah to get married. That means that preparing for a date and all the costs of a date are also a mitzvah. Beautify the mitzvah! Take her out somewhere nice! Until this insight, I was taking my dates to shul for kiddish.
