Facebook, stand down. Even though they are still making fun of G+, obviously, Google is taking over the world. I don't know how the Chinese fit in there to that there equation there, here. On the one hand, there is no escape, on the other hand, they have this non-threatening feel that Microsoft and Apple lack. Except for picture sharing, that's where I draw the line, for now.

Boy, oh boy, remember when I would write with pen and paper. I have blank books still waiting to be filled. Hours upon hours of work. And I say, "all I need is a laptop, and it will all be A-Okay," but I have a laptop, and it is not, and I can still whine about the amount of money needed to cover my monthly.

Kickstarter. Hasn't been aquired by Google.

Legal affairs in Israel. This country is all so heimish, everyone is so cool and brotherly, until it comes down to legal contracts, and, of course, money. Don't let my heimishkeit stand in the way of my Goyishe kop of a legal contract. A nation like all the others. The Jews are deluded, they don't really want to be a nation like all the others. Definitely not what the Neshama wants.

Obvi.

Glee. It's been a while, but there was this Valentine's Day show that focused on six couples. One, getting married, heterosexual couple, fell apart. Two gay couples, great, just fine. One handicapped couple, great. One heterosexual couple, mixed overeager and prudish. One heterosexual couple unclear and deluded. Wow, so that is how relationships are?

I could never understand, when I was in high school, or even younger, when everyone was preoccupied with sex (and I was too, just that I wasn't doing anything about it), and even later, in University, the attitude of sex without commitment, I still don't understand it, it doesn't seem natural. It could be an outgrowth of the physical side effects of birth control pills. BCPs gave the world a whole lot of Free Love, but they really do mess with a woman's hormones (that's the idea, right?). I call BCPs Female Circumcision, Western style.

The subject of how I came to be an observant Jew comes up now and then. I rarely give the true answer. The whole world is preoccupied with sex (food is also up there). But sex as an end to itself is highly unsatisfying.  Judaism, when done properly, sanctifies the mundane, including sex. There is something higher than sex. And sex even be used to connect on a higher level.

Of course intimacy is used in the world to connect on a higher level with other people, but within the structure of Torah and Mitzvos, it can be used to connect to G-dliness. And this requires further discussion, but the point here is that Judaism was the only place where I had witnessed and experienced sanctification of the mundane.