There's something so cynical about all these people who leave Saturday Night Live to pursue their careers (i.e. the higher pay of Hollywood) and in the process forgo any remnants of originality they had in the live action of improvisational comedy.

With regards to Mike Myers in the "Love Guru," I remember seeing the poster advertising the movie some weeks ago in the New York City subway system and thinking, "That's funny these days?" It seemed old as a joke before it even came out. I had a vague notion that the Simpsons nailed it more than ten years ago -- and that was a cartoon -- so why was Hollywood taking on Hindus and sex?

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Abraham Joshua Heschel told the story of a Holocaust survivor riding a European train after the war and, while engaged in conversation with his neighbor, noted his own refusal to pray to God. "I am never going to pray anymore because of what happened to us in Auschwitz."

But after a couple days of travel together, one morning the man awoke and donned his prayer gear of tallis and tefilin.

When asked why he changed his mind, the man answered, "It suddenly dawned upon me to think how lonely God must be; look with whom He is left. I felt sorry for him."

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