t’zrurah tatir y’mincha g’dulat beko’ach ana
nora tahareinu sagvenu amcha rinat kabel
shamrem k’evavat yechudecha dorshei gibor na
gamlem tamid tzidkatcha rachamei taharem barchem
adatecha nahel tuvcha b’row kadosh chasin
k’dushatecha zochrei p’neh l’amcha ge’eh yachid
ta’alumot yode’a tza’akateinu ushma kabel shav’atenu

va’ed l’olam malchutoh kevod shem baruch

Ralph walked into the house with a grin on his face.
“You will never guess what a bargain I just got,” he told his wife.
” I bought four polyester, steel-belted, radial wide-tread, white-walled, heavy duty tires, on sale.”
“Are you nut?” his wife said. “Why did you buy tires for? You do not have a car.”
“So,” said Ralph, “you buy brassieres, don’t you?”

Peter’s friend, Joe, was taking a night course in adult education.
“Who is Barak Obama?” he asked Peter.
“I do not know,” Peter replied.
“He is the president of USA,” said Joe.
“Now do you know who Margaret Thatcher was?”
“No,” said Peter.
“She was the prime minister of Britain,” said Joe.
“You see you should go to night school like I do.”
“Now I have a question for you,” said Peter.
“Do you know who Mic O’Sullivan is?”
“I don’t,” admitted Joe.
‘Well, said Peter, “he is the guy who is screwing your wife while you are at night school.”

Necrophiliac and Cannibalistic jokes are uncivil in SLC

Either we are alone in the universe, there is nobody out there watching us, or there is somebody out there – and both possibilities are equally unbearable. So, from the fear of losing our anchorage in the big Other, we should pass to the terror of there being no big Other. The old formula “there is nothing to fear but fear itself” acquires thus a new unexpected meaning: the fact that there is nothing to fear is the most terrifying fact imaginable. Isaac Asimov.

I know I am not a grain of corn.
But, does the chicken know that I am not a grain of corn?
I know I do not believe in G-d, but G-d knows that I do not believe in Him?

“We are also faced with planetary devastation, the threat of nuclear conflict, the spreading catastrophe of AIDS and other deadly viruses, neoimperial zealotry, mass migrations of the disposed, political fanaticism, a reversion to Victorian-type economic inequalities, and a number of other potential catastrophes.”

“Terrorism now has a deadly momentum of it own. But there is a difference between regretting this tragically lost opportunity, and treating one’s enemies as mindless beasts whom no rational action could ever conceivably sway. for champions of this viewpoint, the only solution to terrorist violence is more violence. More violence breeds more terror, which in turn put more blameless lives at risk. The result of defining terrorism as evil is to exacerbate the problem; and to make the problem worse is to be complicit, however unwittingly, in the very barbarism you condemn.”
Terry Eagleton- On Evil