מצדה

So this past Shabbat I got to get out of town, which was nice. I’d never been to Masada, so we went down early Friday, took the cable car up (the Shabbos clock was ticking, after all) and had a nice few hours tromping around and looking at all of the history. I...

I Loves Me A Good Writing Day

Even though at the end of it, my brain is nothing but hot mush. Man, that was a lot of words I cranked out today (5k?) Be interesting to see how many of them I get to keep in the end. Some, at least.

Folks Haven’t Been Reading Their Bibles

Now, I don’t have any words at this very early juncture about the presidency of the US and all that, but dang, does Barack Obama have something to tell us. I hope he doesn’t shut up any time soon if he’s going to keep talking like he did in this...

Happy Sylvester

…that’s what they call it around here, since the New Year already happened in September, natch. It seems that the Israelis got the name from the Germans–it comes from the 4th c. pope (Silvester I) who knew Constantine–though evidently the story...