While I do hope none of you ever need discover this first-hand, I've just learned another fringe benefit of being homeless; sleeping in rather abnormal places ( Read more... )

           “Unarmed citizen” is, if not a personal choice, an oxymoron. If government officials, elected or not, mandate a defenseless polity, then the people are no longer citizens, they are subjects. This idea is foreign to an increasing number of Americans. But our libraries are full of evidence that the people who rejected their status as ( Read more... )

I love the comics.  They tend to be one of the major reasons I read any particular paper.  And it was when I got the jokes in German that I realized I wirklich sprichst Deutsch (Calvin et Hobbes is still over my head).

When I was in high school, America was graced with three new ones; Bloom County, The Far Side, and Calvin and Hobbes (You can do ( Read more... )

You might charge me with being a few hours late, and I shan't quibble.

All the same...

L'Shana Tova Umetuka!!

( May God bless you and keep you... )

So, we here on the East Coast have just weathered a second tropical depression in as many weeks.  For my own sake I cannot say which was harder on us; of course, Hurricane Irene did kill a few...

( It was interesting, I'll say that )

I think I finally found the good luck charm.

The previous three games I've seen have been blow-outs; first Hamels in a veritable ice bowl, then Halladay got tagged by the Brewers two weeks later.  Oswalt lost a close one to the Rangers in May.

Three aces; three loses.
Not a good way to support the home team.

I took two friends from synagogue today.  ( Read more... )

I was out, for a little coffee and what was supposed to be a Flyers Game 2 win.  I got the coffee.

( Adventures in Adult-sitting )

So, Sam and I have only met here on LJ.  But we connect on some level, I suppose we can blame Christ for that.

But I decided, after reading his results and comments, on taking this quiz myself.

( Prelude, or )

Ironic, I think, is the word.  Unexpected shouldn't be, not really; I do live in North Philly.

I am one week from finishing another semester at school, Research Design and Statistics.  We gave our presentation on Religiosity and Academic Dishonesty tonight.  The instructor liked the topic, and even though we went last, I think most I the class got ( Read more... )

What is saddest is how much I had to fight and argue with myself over dinner last night after class.

( Anybody hungry? )