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That Painted Whore

The New Year, that painted whore to whom we keep returning for more of the same, with no one to blame but ourselves, ~ Have we no shame?

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Linda Alice Fowler

Date: 1/2/2023 10:18:00 AM

To paraphrase what they say, if you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting the same results. Nice one gw! laf :)

P.S. Awtry

Date: 1/1/2023 9:31:00 PM

Wow! What a powerful metaphor! A brisk slap, this one. :)

Gershon Wolf
Date: 1/2/2023 7:09:00 AM

I am a BRISKer. That means I am affiliated with Yeshivas BRISK, which opened two centuries ago in Brest-Litovsk, (then Lithuania, now Belarus). This is really true, by the way. Today BRISK Yeshiva is in Jerusalem. There is a small one in Chicago as well, about two blocks from where I live. There you go... :) gw p.s., a Yeshiva is a Torah Academy, a Rabbinical School, if you will.

Michael Tor

Date: 1/1/2023 1:44:00 AM

Like you say sometimes we are ourselves to blame.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 1/2/2023 7:10:00 AM

If you ask my wife, I am always to blame. Of course!

Shirley Hawkins

Date: 12/31/2022 8:58:00 PM

Who is the one with no shame?

Gershon Wolf
Date: 12/31/2022 9:00:00 PM

Now that's a great question!! Thanks, Shirley, and Happy 2023 to you! ~ Gershon