.  Hi, I’m Amanda. How can I help you today? I need to speak with an agent. Okay… You can tell me what you’d like to do? Actually, it’s complicated. I need to speak with a representative. I see. You’d like to book a flight. No, I want to speak with an agent, a representative. Right, so you want to dispute your air miles Agent! Agent! Okay. I didn’t understand your question I want to speak to an AGENT! You can speak to me. I can’t speak to you. You’re a machine. I see. You wan

Is it only gay men and Jews who have Mommy Issues? I think not,   As you were growing up has there ever been anyone more judgemental, backward thinking, demanding, masochistic, sadistic and what’s more a totally humiliating human being in the world. All of these things and even more so because she was so often right. How many bankruptcies, divorces, broken noses, over-salted soups, hideous tattoos, bad haircuts, and crooked teeth, could have been avoided if we’d only listened

. When Moses came down from Sinai he brought with him a set of rules. And while over the years there have been some modifications, for example thou can wear white after Labor Day, or brown shoes with black, they’ve pretty much stayed the same. Even now you can’t walk down 5th Avenue and shoot someone…tempting though it may be. Because still after all these years, there are agreed standards, guard rails, that can guide us through life.   I was thinking about that just the othe

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