Helen Thomas Resigns

Luke Ford says:

On his radio show today, Dennis Prager says: “I’ve never liked Helen Thomas but I’ve never bothered spending time about her. She was always this far-left voice in the press corps. She was tolerated because of her age and being in the press corp so long. What she said is truly beyond the pale.”

“This is one of the rare cases where I think resignation is appropriation. I have a broad tolerance for people making all sorts of comments. I so deeply believe in liberty. This is advocacy of annihilation of a country. If this isn’t beyond the pale, then nothing is.

“What if a reporter said that all the blacks should go back to Africa, go back to where they came from? What would the reaction be like in this country? It would be horrific.

“There was this sports announcer many years ago [Jimmy the Greek Snyder] who said that blacks have greater innate abilities.

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When My Body Gives Me Away II

Luke Ford says:

Oy, and then there were all those times in grade school when I had such a massive erection, I could not get up from my desk without giving myself away (not too much that the pooling of blood in my nether regions would probably have caused me to faint).

Oy, I'm remembering my first love. It was the summer of 1982. We were frolicking in the Pacific Union College pool in Angwin, CA.

This little black boy with a swimming mask surfaced and said to me in front of my beloved, "Why is your penis sticking out like a lance?"

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Tears For Fears

Luke Ford says:

* There was this girl in fifth grade (Avondale College Primary School) who liked me. I couldn’t stand it so I tortured her. I used to leave tacks on her chair.

When she sat down, she’d scream and start crying.

On other occasions, I’d kick her.

One day she said to me, “One day you too will love someone who’ll kick you.”

* I was going to a singles lunch at my Orthodox shul in 2002. We had to introduce ourselves by saying two things we love.

“I love sarcasm and irony,” I said.

“That will really make people want to be close to you,” said my therapist later.

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Luke Ford says:

1:20 p.m. I change my shirt to the long-sleeved grey one. Then on with the blue jeans.

I slop on some sun screen. I rub it all over my face and then around the back of my neck. Am I becoming a metrosexual? Oy vey.

I’ll go to the Israel rally early. Find parking. I could walk but it’s hot out and I’m tired.

This will be my first journey out of the hovel on a weekend since my Loma Linda trip May 14-15.

I find a spot in the shade. I check my cell phone. No calls and no emails since I left the house eight minutes ago.

Nobody cares.

I pick up The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity by Hyam Maccoby.

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George Eliot's Middlemarch

Luke Ford says:

I’m near the end of this novel.

A few weeks ago, I saw the BBC miniseries.

I’m struck by the shunning delivered to one of the major characters in the novel when it is discovered that he came by his money dishonorably.

The moral standards and preoccupations displayed in this Christian 19th Century novel put much of the Orthodox Judaism I know today to shame.

There’s far less moral flexibility and the turning of a blind eye towards wrongdoing in Middlemarch than in Pico-Robertson.

It’s enough to make me believe in the decline of the generations (that every generation since Mount Sinai is less upright).

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Fired Being Too Hot?

Luke Ford says:

Dennis Prager says she was not fired for being too attractive. The bank fired her for dressing too provocatively. If she did dress immodestly and would not stop dressing immodestly, Dennis said he defended the bank’s actions.

Dennis said he did not find the clothing she wore in the recent news photos (in the New York Daily News) as too provocative.

“No woman has ever been fired for being too attractive,” said Prager.

The provocative photos at the bottom here come from the Village Voice.

Beth posts: “If those pics are examples of her workplace attire, they were right to fire her. Banks are notoriously conservative places to work. Our skirts couldn’t be shorter than one inch above the knee, and the concept of “work cleavage”?Forget about it. Twice I was spoken to about my attire, and it was way more conservative than this lady’s. Pencil skirts and stilettos can be normal business attire or they can be slutty, depending how they’re worn.”

Report:

NEW YORK: It is not a crime to be attractive or dress in well-cut business suits, but if you ask Debrahlee Lorenzana, 33, either can cost you your job. She claims in court papers that she was forced out of her $70,000-a-year Manhattan Citibank job because her male managers found her a “distraction”.

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The Light In Her Eyes

Luke Ford says:

The sweetest sight in the world to me is the light in her eyes.

When she lights up, when she looks at me and her eyes shine, I feel deeply happy.

When she looks at me and her eyes are dead, then I feel sad.

I'll admit it. I want to see the light in her eyes. I don't feel like a man until my vision for myself is reflected in her eyes.

When I have the rapt attention of a beautiful young woman, I feel drunk.

I wonder what puts it in her eyes and I wonder what takes it away.

I'm 44. Many beautiful women have shined their eyes at me. But it's never lasted long.

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