Grew up with a hyphenated name... My wife didn’t like hers and I sure as hell wasn’t going to saddle my kids with the burden of not being able to fill in forms, having paperwork lost and having to correct people: Got rid of the mother’s name in the hyphenated name (it was the boring half, like “Smith”) and my wife…

Are you serious!?! Gerry Adams is accused of ordering two murders carried out by the IRA, including a notorious incident in which a mother of ten was shot dead and secretly buried. I have no doubt that the evidence has been buried since 1972 and that he’ll never be prosecuted, but there’s a BIG difference between…

From my perspective with have whole publishing houses that publish the “good stuff” (see: ArtScroll) and nuanced stories, where everything doesn’t go perfectly, and struggles have olam hazeh implications are rare.

בעסער א ווייטיק אין הארץ אידער א כארפּע אין פּנים

Off The Derech: It means “not on the path”, orthodox religion being “the path”

The Russians are putting out prettier planes than we are these days. The F-35 looks like an overweight guppy, the F-22 looks like a Michael Bay ejaculation and it seems like their planes can outfly ours. WTF military!?!

Wagon better: http://www.cargurus.com/Cars/l-Used-Vo…

I guess I'm just bored by this approach.

I don't think that the strawman who you wrote this for reads Jezebel. *shrug*

Hi, if I have an ejaculation outside of a woman's body I am also unclean and have to immerse in a mikvah just as a woman does. It has happened many times throughout my life in situations completely out of my control, so yes I do a certain level of understanding.
A few sentences before the part you quoted I tried to…

The line between "mainline" orthodoxy and "ultra" orthodoxy aren't as clear as you'd think from articles posted on a blog. Our rabbis go to many of the same yeshivos and there is a lot of interaction socially.