Reply To: Random Thoughts

“He can dish it out, but he can’t take it” is a common way of saying someone who dispenses insults gets offended when one is directed at him.

OTOH, “He can dish it out, and he can take it” means that he may make comments that can be perceived as insulting, but he will also receive such comments in good grace.

A praiseworthy characteristic that is almost never commented on is “He doesn’t dish it out, but he can take it” – someone who is both careful not to insult others, yet overlooks and is mochel insults directed toward himself.

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Although I’ve frequently rebuked others in my self-appointed position as CR scold, in almost every instance I’ve felt bad thinking about the hurt inflected on the recipient. Perhaps I should either stop doing so altogether, or at the most just phrase a “please stop” request in the most parave terms and then not follow up to avoid intensifying any possible disagreement or having a discussion degenerate.

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Nothing like Shavuous in yeshiva. I miss it.

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There aren’t enough hours in the day to do everything you’d like. There aren’t enough brain cells in one’s head to remember everything and everyone we’d like to, either.

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Skype and the like are fantastic for far-flung families staying in touch, especially grandparents who otherwise wouldn’t see their grandkids more than once a year.

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Of all the potential successors to Mayor Bloomberg, not a single one impresses me. Joe Lhota seems to be the most competent and least pandering of the bunch.

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Despite some pretty heavy rainstorms over the last week, the weather since Pesach has been very temperate – not too cold, not too hot.

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Nothing creates a need that you didn’t even know existed like reading the Best Buy circular.

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Important things in life:

1) Menuchas hanefesh.

2) Happiness, success and yiras shomayim for the kids.

3) Health.

Beyond that, anything else is gravy.

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I don’t know if legalized gambling is a tax on the poor, but it certainly adversely and disproportionately affects them.

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$15 cash to cross the Verrazano? That’s just the most egregious example of the sky-high rates charged to those leaving and entering New York City.

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Have a Chag Kasher V’Sameach