For today's agency meeting, lots of people had baked and brought in muffins. (It's nice, it boosts morale and it saves catering costs. Everyone wins.) Laura Vent's apple crumble muffins were voted overall winners for both taste and aesthetic appeal. Laura Day's white chocolate and st...

In case anyone was wondering, yes, we did get a Mishloach Manot (food basket) from our neighbor Avigdor Lieberman for Purim. Unfortunately it was not personally delivered. Lame. On to something completely different: I read two articles this morning about different groups trying to get young Jews inv...

Click on the picture and you can jump to their website (or use the URL) to see all the activities. I go every year and have a ball. A few years ago I attended the "make your own flute" class. I'm still enjoying my flute today. If you're in the Maryland area, you don'...

Join writer/director Casper Andreas for the Los Angeles opening of his newest film, Between Love & Goodbye , opening at Sunset 5 today (at the 7.15PM screening tonight, and Saturday night, along with leading actor Simon Miller), showing for one week only.  Raves the LA Times : Between Love ...

Another Idea For Federal (or State) Legislative Reform: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) At sundry times and in divers manner your host has written on the issue of legislative reform in the context of major movements underlying the foundational presuppositions of this endeavour as o...

Edited to add: Author’s Preface: I see each post in this series as one section of a single piece of writing, not as a discrete essay unto itself. As a result, while each section may contain its own argument, it is not really possible to know whether an issue that you feel is important will or will...

At Townhall, another well-known commentator calls out the nature of Obama’s agenda, and explains the markets’ decline: But the list of causes of the collapse of the financial system does not include the absence of universal health care, let alone of computerized medical records. Nor the ...

Former Thatcher adviser John O'Sullivan sees possible euro-collapse as the "commentariat" in Europe: Every day brings news of fresh disasters, but the main current anxieties are (1) that Austrian banks that have loaned too much to Eastern Europe will collapse when Hungary and others de...

Sometimes I wish I could unroll my brain (picturing it like a roll of wrapping paper full of paperclips and fuzz balls) and scrub it down. There are too many things clogging the gears like our humidifier which gave up this morning and just started letting the water leak onto the floor. I probably sh...

If anyone ever asks me when I started loving Dollhouse, I’ll tell them “When Eliza Dushku hit a singer with a chair and said “Friends help each other” I don’t feel like Dollhouse is great TV yet, but I do think it’ll get there, and this episode showed me that the ...