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January 2015

January 06, 2015

Still Trying For That Girl, No?

A friend writes on Facebook with a similar story that those I told in my last...

December 2014

December 11, 2014

Horoscopes from Camelot

An @woofboy responding to a friend's Twitter comment pointed us both to this editorial from Theology...

December 03, 2014

Commercial Debasement

"You have to wade through a lot of postmodernist/Marxist jargon in the Australian journalist Guy...

November 2014

November 14, 2014

The Grave Not Taken

Something I wrote a few years ago, of which I was reminded by the essay...

November 04, 2014

A Death Museum

In Brooklyn, the new Morbid Anatomy Museum is certainly morbid but also revealing. Its culturally Jewish but...

October 2014

October 07, 2014

The Sabbath & the Cell Phone

A new Shabbos app lets observant Jews use their cell phones on the Sabbath. Which...

October 03, 2014

Haredi Gaming the System

Heredi men flying on El Al from the United States to Israel seem frequently to...

September 2014

September 24, 2014

In Denmark, SSM That Is, But Isn’t, But Really Is

By law, as they're employees of the state (who begins tipping the whole thing into...

September 15, 2014

When the State Says You Have to Serve Food When You Serve Drink

What one pub did in response to an Indiana regulation requiring it always to serve...

September 11, 2014

A Liturgical Pez Dispenser

This is, apparently, not a hoax: the Communion White Host Dispenser from a company called...

September 10, 2014

Beer As a Social Marker

Not directly applicable to people of the age of the average Patheos reader but probably generally true...

September 10, 2014

The Discreetly Nursing Mother

Elizabeth Scalia's comment on yesterday's Conservative Breast-Feeding: When I first saw the headline from David Mills I...

September 09, 2014

Conservative Breast-feeding

Based on an inconclusive twitter discussion between three "prominent conservatives," none of whom I'd ever...

September 02, 2014

Ricky Gervais’ Common Sense About Nude Pictures

Ricky Gervais' tweeted comment seemed kind of obvious: "Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

White People Like Being Spiritual

As it turns out, not only is being "spiritual but not religious" a spiritual and...

August 21, 2014

Selling Jewish Sperm

In an "Aldous Huxley, call your office" story, the Forward explains 6 Things You Need to...

August 19, 2014

Dysfunction Dramas

The main relationship, the relationship you are supposed to root for, moves from dysfunction to...

August 06, 2014

Seven Rules for Being Kind to Waiters

Customers can treat waiters and fast food clerks very badly, sometimes amazingly badly. Some of it's...

August 04, 2014

Obama the Light-Worker: Thoughts from 2008

Writing in June 2008, an SF Gate and Huffington Post columnist named Mark Morford explained...

July 2014

July 22, 2014

Intentionally Addicting Facebook

Facebook, observes Jess Zimmerman writing in The Guardian, is testing a "buy" button that will allow you...

July 17, 2014

The Fake Commenter’s Form

Those of you who have weblogs will know the annoyance of those usually half-literate fake...

July 15, 2014

A Defense of the Pit Bull

The essay's a little over-wrought, especially at the end, but offers a needed defense of the...

July 11, 2014

If This Was the 1950s

Australian judge says incest may no longer be a taboo, reports the Daily Telegraph, and the...

July 10, 2014

Three Children, Five Parents, & Changing Marriage

Her brother, says Masha Gessen, former head of the Moscow office of US Radio Liberty,...

July 07, 2014

Why So Many Millenials Are Living at Home

Do not, says Derek Thompson in The Atlantic:, freak out: a huge percentage of young...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Tired Yuppy Parents

In this morning's readings, I mentioned an article on the need for children to play...