This morning I was reading an article in the Wisconsin State Journal that was quite serious and proper for the majority of the time. It was a standard piece of court reporting regarding charges of distributing marijuana and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The kid was 12, so we're really talking about a kid here, not some teenager.

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So much for salad tonight. I was going to get salad greens at the Farmer's Market this morning. I didn't get out early enough, and there were no salad greens. I did get one bag of spinach, which I'm going to make into a matzah kugel so it goes far enough to feed 17 people. But the salad is bugging me a little. I'm supposed to take salad to seder ( Read more... )

I was just reading the paper and noticed this short article.  This is not the sort of thing you read every day!

According to UW Police Officer Gerard Pehler, he was assisting a fan who had fallen due to heat exhaustion when a bystander approached and asked him, "Can you do anything about two having sex in the women's restroom stall?"

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The summer is coming to an end. Here in my midwestern college town the students are coming back. The weather is cooling (although yesterday was 90F and 75% humidity). And the canning supplies are here.

In every hardware store and almost every grocery store there are canning supplies. Jars, lids, pectin, all bearing the Ball or Kerr logos. Even in ( Read more... )

1. Go into the archives of your LJ.
2. Find your 42nd entry ever. Yes, this may require some counting and basic maths. Deal with it.
3. Link to that entry in a new entry. This is the meaning of your life.

Dinner was roast chicken, roasted potatoes, and spinach. With red wine. Sadly the chicken took a very long time to cook, so it wasn't as nice as it ( Read more... )

We just got home from Jeff Erlanger's funeral. It was huge and beautiful. Jeff Erlanger was an amazing guy in our town, here's his obit, the memorial in this week's Isthmus, and a memorial in the Capital Times. Jeff had an amazing spirit and touched way more people in 36 years than anyone else I know. As a result our synagogue was packed. They ( Read more... )