Christmas-Chanukah: What’s the Difference?

 

Just in case there might be someone who is not keenly aware of the differences between Christmas and Chanukah….

1. Christmas is one day, same day every year, December 25. Jews also love December 25th. It’s another paid day off work. We go to movies and out for Chinese food and Israeli dancing.
    Chanukah is 8 days. It [...]

When Snow Falls & Pigs Fly

I know I haven’t been blogging lately. Another blog gets too much of my attention. So, I want to share the latest post on my “other blog” OlberBlogging.
The latest post has lots of Buddhist “heart” in it. As well as a few Buddhist gods playing tricks on me, I suppose. Perhaps for ignoring thihs one.

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Happy Holidays and Other Profanities

Holiday jeers again usurp holiday cheers with the return of  Fox News blowhard Bill O’Reilly’s “anti-Christmas cultural war.” Pre-thanksgiving, while touting his new book in the liberal news media, O’Reilly rebranded himself as a “secularist” with deep abiding love for church-state separation. But with the tour over, this turkey and his fellow Christmas crusaders once [...]

Turtle Love Beyond The Grave

The photo below shows a male turtle who remained for hours at the memorial set up for its human friendly mate killed on a Hawaii beach.

People (usually scientists) who state animals lack emotions and memories, must lack such themselves
Please click here for the video. Have a hankie ready.