• For once, someone actually applied the establishment clause of the US constitution. (More)
• There haven't been very many Adventures in Cooking lately, but I did make some mahtzah ball soup a couple weeks ago that came out fantastic. The balls were cooked all the way through, the soup was salty but not too salty, etc. This week I want to go out and ( Read more... )

• I've barely felt the presence of Passover, the time of ritual lack of yeast. Since the days when I made my family sit through extensive selections from the haggadah are long gone, all that's left of the seder is my mom's turkey with some gefilte fish & horseradish. (Choice quotation: "I have a sudden craving for bitter herbs.") We didn't even have ( Read more... )

The whole getting-words-out-of-my-head thing is still causing great difficulty. With some exceptions, to be fair: I was feeling particularly spacey last Tuesday, but when Corinne called me I had no problem perking up and talking to her for a few hours. It's amazing how much talking to her, no matter what we're talking about, makes me feel like a ( Read more... )

I asked astute_reason about masculinity for the five-thing meme because it's something I've been thinking about more than a bit myself. As I mentioned back in December, I've come to think of things more and more in terms of virtue ethics, so for me personally, the question becomes: what must I do to be a good man qua man? Is "masculinity," whatever that might ( Read more... )