Befuddled Badger

Analysts at major investment banks promote stocks they know to be worthless, misleading the investors who rely on their advice yet helping t...

Which is the sadder scenario: a mother who has lost her child or a child who has lost his mother? Munch explores both with his paintings ...

Similarities with Kafka: 1) Fantasize about exotic exile while hardly leaving home 2) Proud of Jewishness but non-practicing and ignoran...

The Boddhisattvas teach that loneliness is something you should not run from. Think about it: you are born alone, die alone, much of the ti...

My father was Martin and my mother Dora. Brooklyn Jews. My brother is Michael. I knocked on his door when he was going away to college an...

My mother was the antithesis of the stereotypical Jewish mother. For one, we didn't observe Judaism or even talk about it, it was taboo...

There was a strange coincidence yesterday, or perhaps I'm looking for synchronicity. I was watching a movie called "The Notebook...

There are two impediments to my sleeping: anxiety and nasal/allergy. My nose is fucked up, the surgeon said it's one of the smallest he...

Who can blame him? This looks like good stuff and it's Italian.

This is going a bit far. "Too Soon" for what? Jackson's career ended after "Thriller," which really wasn't ver...

They yap about wanting a sensitive, emotional man, but what they really want is six feet tall, muscles, long hair, tattoos, motorcycle and g...