File photo: Aero Icarus/Flickr Norwegian airline to offer free water on long flights Budget airline Norwegian is to serve free drinking water and will accept cash payments on long-haul flights after thirsty passengers were left high and dry for up to 12 hours, it said on Wednesday. READ (1 comment)[...]
Archive for September, 2013
September 27th, 2013 - 10:21 pm § in Misc.
The Schwartz Family Feud, Part 2
An email from my brother in law, Bill Quick: Stephen:The photo you reproduce of my father-in-law, Dr. Robert Schwartz, at http://handbill.us/?p=23779 is a cropped copy of a photo I took http://www.swq.com/boston2008/20apr08_4679.jpg It and other photos from that day are posted at http://www.swq.com/[...]
September 27th, 2013 - 3:24 pm § in America
Shutting Down Amerika
Obama will not negotiate “with people with a bomb strapped to their chest’ Politico: Shut down the government! Blow through the debt ceiling! Subject the United States to fiscal chaos or financial ruin if your party can’t get its way on unrelated ideological priorities! With apologies to N[...]
Is Buffy a Mormon?
Recently I read that the Mormons have baptized Anne Franke, converting her in the afterlife. What Would Buffy do if someone did this to one of her undead friends? Are there Mormon vampires ro just Mormon Slayers? Joanna Riess, a devout Mormon, is the author of “What Would Buffy Do: The V[...]
September 26th, 2013 - 7:00 pm § in Uncategorized
Origins of Kashrut
Leviticus 11:5 And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. A lot of my recent posts have bounced off the behavior of my own family . More ty0icall7y, however I find myself responding to things I read at David Goldsteins blog, esp his weekly [&hellip[...]
September 26th, 2013 - 11:35 am § in Jews
שמחת תורה
שמחת תורה Two years ago, over at HorsesAss, David Goldstein chose the Sunday after Simchas Torah, the day Jews believe the Torah was given to man, to quote from the beginning of Genesis: Genesis 2:2 By the seventh day God had finished his work, and so he rested. God, or at least the perso[...]
September 26th, 2013 - 10:28 am § in Uncategorized
Schwartz Family: A Former Student Writes About Robert
Bob with his second wife, Betty. I am sure that Arnie’s comments (left) will mean a lot to her. from my sister’s website: by Arnie Berman, a former student at the time of Robert Schwarz’s death “I first met Bob almost 40 years ago when I was a 1st year medical[...]