You must accept yourself as fallible in order to love others and life.
In elementary school, at some age now beyond the grasp of memory, I go into the fridge before my dad gets back from work. I take an entire package of 24 or so beers, sneaking on the tips of my toes to the bathroom. One by one, I open each can and pour their contents down the sink, thinking to myself, "Now he won't be angry."
When…
The Uncertainty Principle. It proves we can't ever really know...what's going on. So it shouldn't bother you. Not being able to figure anything out. Although you will be responsible for this on the mid-term.
If debate is a Jewish sacrament, A Serious Man is that divine ritual put on full display. Questions of faith, irreconcilable paradoxes, and the teeth of goys all come together to paint a picture of what it is to be Jewish. Of course, being a Coen…
I despise The West Wing. It's porn. But it's treated with so much more reverence than porn because people believed it was real.
But I'll preface the rest of this tirade by saying a few things.
First, it's objectively good television, politics aside. And there isn't a member of the cast that didn't blow my socks off, repeatedly. And, while I'm not a fan of the result, I can't deny the cultural impact of Sorkin's work on virtually all television…
