Category: Jews

“You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes.”

“And I will put hooks in your jaws and I will cause the fish of your rivers to fasten onto your scales, and I will drag you up out of the midst of your rivers and all the fish of your rivers shall stick to your scales.” That is some authentic Israelite gibberish.

Yes, dammit, it’s not HANUKKAH, it’s CHANUKKAH, you gotta have that throat-clearing thing up front. Anyway, the Old Man has his own cynical take on the history of that holiday.

Short one today because I’m buried with work. But… I did want to present the single most wonderful moment in the Bible, one that will warm the black hearts of libertarians.

“Jews earn like Episcopalians but vote like Puerto Ricans.” OMWC finds it interesting that the most obvious conclusions have rarely been drawn.

Where the mercenary intersects with the progressive, expect to find (((us))) there.

OMWC muses on origins, appropriation, culinary controversy, then prescribes the One True Way to make shakshuka.

You fucked up- you trusted me.

Sometimes, much in the manner of a drunken legislature, Moses throws out laws as brain lint, often amusing, often puzzling, often creepy. OMWC reviews a few of this week’s laws.

“The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.”

Well, they try, anyway. Fuck it, falafel still tastes great.

Why Deuteronomy is a comedy of mannas.

OMWC is on a work trip so is using this post as a placeholder until his return. But there’s still drinking and sexual content.

“Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don’t know how far we can go.”