October 20, 2010

If you’re into sabremetrics

you and george f will will be best mates.  in walla walla last week at the oneg the presiding rabbinic panel informed me that my baseball cap was a perfectly acceptable kippah, and furthermore expounded upon its origin in brooklyn among the jewish children playing in the streets. i greet the gospel of the cap adjudication, without confirming the historical aside.

(in certain districts haknesset wear no tassles, for they are wont to become entangled in folding chairs which under conceivable circumstances could end in asphyxiation. i suggest tzitzittucking while seated or otherwise at risk of entanglement.  assent all around.)

i do not know whether they indulge him on local campuses, but this benjamin of tudela is a good illuminating read. at alma mater the other day there is still nothing but construction parking and trailers on the old site of the marian, and hijabs in der women-volk, und emirates decals im reisen-burners, but otherwise the bedaubed area strumpet she ever was.