Via Reuters: One in every 11 minutes spent online globally is on networking sites. Between December 2007 and December 2008, the time spent on the sites climbed 63 percent to 45 billion minutes. . . . The biggest growth in Facebook membership comes from the 35-49 year old set. Facebook has added twic...

Glenn Reynolds points to Reason TV and “Why you’re living in the libertarian moment. ….” I’ve suggested otherwise more than once, unless by “moment” we mean a passing pulse of time — then, perhaps, that’s about right. But libertarianism is neither the de...

A lot of things are looking different from how they once did, aren’t they? While experiencing serial delays along New Jersey’s government transit system, I decided to take a long, hard look at the contacts database in my BlackBerry.  Boy, there were a lot of names in there of people reg...

This February has been so darned cold that I just don’t know what to do about it.  I am beginning to wonder if all the time I have been talking about how much I enjoy the procession and cycle of the seasons I’ve just been rationalizing?  Because this has been miserable. Now it was warm...

Sometimes even bathroom doors in old courthouses give the best advice, but even then — do we heed it?...

One of my best friends called me this morning at 6:30 AM to say the Hebrew words that translate: “Blessed is the True Judge”: We write these words with great sadness and disbelief — our beloved Rosh Yeshiva, HaRav Noach Yisrael Noach ben Yitzchak Mattisyahu Weinberg - passed away t...

I heard about this story on sports radio Friday morning, and while I appreciated the hosts’ outrage, I think they missed the point: A Texas high school girls basketball team has apologized for winning big. The Covenant School, a private Christian high school in Dallas, defeated Dallas Academy ...

Bloggers for Bounty As we wrote last week, with a touch of political snark (excised for today in the spirit of the thing): A quarter of a million people in New Jersey depend on the generosity of their fellow citizens to meet their dietary needs. The Community Food Bank of New Jersey reports that req...

Extremist Muslims lashing out angrily at the West, as leverage on the Hindu majority in India, have slaughtered over 100 people in the Indian city of Mumbai.  (Good roundup here.)  These people were killed, in classical Islamist terrorist style, for just being who they are.  So naturally the Jews...

I came home “early” tonight, so my fourth grade twins begged me to “do something” with them, which of course I had to do, and what they wanted me to do and what I did was watch three Three Stooges shorts on DVD on the computer in the basement.  Now I have not seen a frame of...