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Happy birthday to me! In honor of my birthday, Israel commenced another lockdown! This one is “for two weeks”, and is “the last lockdown”. I do believe we’ve heard those phrases in recent memory.

Sarah has ceased her employment in the retail sector, and is now (as in just now) starting as an executive assistant in an insurance brokerage. Better conditions and pay, and not opposite the public all day! We wish her success in the new position.

On my birthday, I awakened to news of the rioting in Washington, D.C., and the needless loss of life there. The Hodge Twins comment on that unrest better than I can. I just want to say that I am deeply saddened by what’s become of my birth-country, and I do believe we are witnessing the end of the Republic as we’ve known it. Perhaps I’ll explain why I’m pessimistic about the future of the US in a future blog post, but let’s just say that the system of “checks and balances” no longer applies.

Topics of interest:

  • Intending to encourage Israelis to get vaccinated, and coincidentally have a great photo-op, Netanyahu posed with the one-millionth person vaccinated in Israel. He probably didn’t know at the time that the person had been convicted of murder. N.B.: TOI retracts that claim.
  • Remember when saying “COVID was leaked from a Chinese lab” was labeled a “conspiracy theory”? Well, it’s gone mainstream now. Had to wait until after Orange Man was gone, though.
  • On the specifically anti-Jewish polices of Andrew Cuomo, et. al.. Jews of the US, take note!
  • FWEEDOM! Vice President-elect Kamala Harris invents an entirely fictional childhood story, lifted directly from a similar one by MLK. Did she always know how to plagiarize, or was that a skill acquired from Joe Biden? Here’s Matt Walsh with a humorous take on that topic.
  • Congress (via Nancy Pelosi) goes full retard by proposing to eliminate use of gendered words like ‘mother’ and ‘father’. Can I get an “amen”?!? Can I get an “awomen”?!?
  • And finally: “Cosmo” decides it makes sense to pitch obesity for “body positivity”.


I’m sorry to tell you that so far, 2021 isn’t shaping up to be an improvement over its predecessor.

Also on my birthday, I made a new release of 8th, the first of 2021. So far no complaints, but it’s only been a day or so! This release includes a “constraint solver” as well as prototype-based OOP.

We’ve had quite warm weather, like early summer, this week! The warmth is to continue until next Thursday! Very strange January weather, indeed.

This shabbat’s menu includes:
homemade ḥalla, tom yum gai soup, braised short-ribs with kohlrabi mash, chicken stir-fry, rice, various salatim, and fabulous birthday cake.

Until next time,
shabbat shalom!


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