I'd like to thank dglenn for bringing this to my attention:
"[...] as an Orthodox rabbi who does not officiate at same-sex marriages [...] My 'side' did not lose, because my side is never defined by any one position on a matter of ritual or liturgy, no matter how important that matter may be. My side, I hope, is God's side, and the God in whom I believe ( Read more... )

I've been using cnn.com for my daily national/world news roundup, but they just redesigned the site and made it ugly and bloated. So I'm in the market for a news site that isn't ( Read more... )

Oh phooey -- we ate that yesterday, "possibly" exposing us to listeria monocytogenes (warning: I cringed while reading this). But kudos to Giant Eagle for calling and telling me; store affinity cards do bring privacy issues, but it's nice to know that the tracking of purchases can produce good outcomes too. Unless it were to make the news ( Read more... )

I was pleased to read in today's local paper that, finally, there will be justice for Nikko the husky. One good thing came out of a sad incident, at least.
( possible trigger: child died, dog got blamed )

This stuff is important. Have you contacted your senators yet ( Read more... )

I had not previously heard that Samoa is moving across the international date line this week, meaning that they will go from 11:59PM Thursday to 12:00AM Saturday, skipping Friday. This raises an interesting question for any Jews living there -- when is Shabbat ( Read more... )

There is a recall on certain Iams dry dog food (see link for lot numbers, dates, etc). Pennsylvania is on the list of affected states. It's been pulled from stores already, but if you feed your dogs Iams dry food and you have some at home, you should check to see if you're affected. Link from alienor(I'm not planning to post about every recall I hear ( Read more... )

Thanks to siderea for pointing me to this post about problems with Purina pet food (dog and cat, at least). After seeing this I read the last several month's worth of consumer-affiars complaints, and older ones about the specific foods relevant to me. (Warning: can be gross.) This goes well beyond "ew, yuck" to "get that stuff out of the house before ( Read more... )

For days I've been wanting to post something long and thoughtful about our current national woes, but other people (particularly osewalrus are covering that ground quite well and the words just haven't come. In lieu of that post, I'll share the messages I sent to my representatives in Congress. (I kept them short in hopes that this might increase the odds ( Read more... )

I interrupt preparations for the class I'm teaching next week at the music and dance collegium (gosh, I hope I have this calibrated right...) to pass along some random short bits.
Dear Netflix: I appreciate the convenience of your recent change to ( Read more... )