Steve Brizel writes: The Mandatory Half Shekel R. Yitzchak Adlerstein, based upon the teachings of the Nesivos Shalom, illustrates how and why personal growth is dependent on partnering with the greater community of Klal Yisrael: link Why Every Jew Counts R. Shlomo Riskin reminds us that while we ar...

Last Thursday I went for a run. I had to. It was such a beautiful day here - 80 degrees and sunny with a breeze. I mean, that's great weather at ANY time but right smack at the end of winter and just a mere 4 days after a big SNOWSTORM and man, that made for a good day. There is a trail near our...

I'm really tired of feeling like I need to walk on egg shells when I talk about real life issues with Christians. I'm really fed up with bankrupt Christianology that says it isn't ok to admit the things we struggle with. I've had it with the unspoken rule that says we should all put on our happy fac...

We’ve been through the schedule for the upcoming South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival, a few times. In fact between our own scouring of the schedule and the countless emails from publicists, producers and directors — which we like because they make us think that people like us —...

Another morbid shooting spree in a small town. I expect these to become more frequent as people become more desperate. It's a side-effect of collapse. It's hard to argue that we're not in for a long down spell. People have......

I've noticed a few interesting things happen recently, and I don't think they're by accident. :) I promise I am trying my best to make NO puns in this post, but it's not so easy. Every word sounds rude! OK, here we go... eBay sellers who list in Adults Only (formerly "Mature Aud...

The day should be cold and sunny. Yesterday was a fairly quiet one. I got up not really wanting too. The time change was still taking its toll. My brain was out of it. Uggh I got outside to the car and saw the snow. Uggh. Talk about a kick in the nuts. There was a small coating of snow on the ground...

When folks move, they are taking advantage of something people are willing to do as a favor. Expend a few hours to do a large amount of work. The tradeoff is this. The person who is packing expends a lot of hours packing so the movers don't have to. It's hard to get help if the things drags on and o...

The day should be a snowy and cold one. Uggh. Winter returns. Yesterday was a good day. I woke up fairly late thanks to the time change. Uggh. I still managed to get my ass out of bed before eight. smirks I took my folks into Chinatown. We to another grocery store that we hadn't gone to in a long ti...

I still have hope that eBay can fix things. But they're going to have to do things differently, and not just talk about making changes. I think it was in November that we saw Pierre tweet that he was stepping in to fix things. It's March. I'm trying to keep my hopes up, but I'm not r...