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SONG: Stupid Pupil
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(sung to the tune of Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield’s “Stupid Cupid”)
Stupid Pupil you’re a real disgrace You don’t contribute; you just take up space You go to college on your parents’ dime But you ain’t learnin’, you’re just wastin’ time. Hey hey, brainless punk Stupid Pupil, get ready to flunk
Can’t do your homework and you can’t think straight Too busy watching TikTok while you masturbate Sitting through classes with your earbuds in Looking so dead they call your next of kin Boo-hoo, throw your fit Stupid Pupil, your pronoun is “it.”
You mixed-up little twerp, with your protest sign upheld But you can’t read or write, so the words are all misspelled
You think you’re curing social-justice ills But meanwhile mom and dad are paying all your bills You’re chugging Red Bull and you’re vaping weed the only things you learn are from your Twitter feed You don’t work, you don’t pay rent Stupid Pupil, come out of your tent
Your hair is greasy and your armpits stink You think that other people really care what you think And if you graduate, then you’ll be through `Cause you’ll be serving burgers to the likes of you Hey hey, don’t you see You just crapped on your Bachelor’s Degree
Hey hey, higher ed Stupid Pupil, I wish you were dead.
RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #185 (5/4/2024): Three Cheers for the NYPD
airs May 4, 2024 on Dave’s Gone By. Youtube video:
Shalom Dammit! This is Rabbi Sol Solomon with a Rabbinical Reflection for early May 2024.
Credit where credit is due. And I don’t mean the credit cards where I owe 30 percent interest on a sofa I bought in 2014. No, I’m talking about: let’s applaud a job well done in a tremendously difficult situation.
Ever since George Floyd — you know, the drug addict, thief, armed robber, and counterfeiter who was horribly murdered by overzealous law enforcement — ever since that subject for statues became a symbol for systemic racism, cops have been betwixt and between. On the one hand, they face loathing from communities where, admittedly, they behaved badly for decades. On the other, they’re expected to be models of self-control while putting their lives on the line. Picture trying to do your job when the very people you are tasked to protect are shouting to defund you. Imagine that you take pride in serving the Big Apple, yet you’re automatically lumped in with the bad apples.
And now imagine that you’ve been called to a college campus where hundreds of deluded 20-somethings — whose age alone would mark them as enemies of authority — imagine that these liberal loonies and BIPOC buttheads have overtaken a major American university. As part of their tantrum, they’ve camped out on the lawn, blocked access to thoroughfares, and even vandalized a building. The school President has hithered and dithered, not wanting to spark violence or squelch free speech, but terrified to lose benefactors who might balk at endowing a university whose main export has become anti-Semitism.
By the time Columbia’s leader, Minouche Shafik, realized things had gotten out of control, things had gotten out of control. What to do? What to do? Let the monkeys run amok? Surrender Hamilton Hall, Lewisohn Hall, Kravis Hall, the ironically named “Harmony Hall” — all to a bunch of tent-pitching yahoos who couldn’t find Gaza on a map, a map in a bookstore, a bookstore in a city, and a city on their non-stop TikTok feeds?
At a certain point, order must be restored. It doesn’t matter that the disrupters were non-violent, and it wouldn’t matter if they were there supportingIsrael against the demons of Hamas. They were asked to leave and refused. They were commanded to leave, and instead, smashed windows and home-invaded the administration building.
That’s when you send in the cops. With riot gear.
And that, finally, is what President Shafik did. After a week of letting the hyenas run the zoo, she called in the NYPD who, with exceptional restraint and by-the-book behavior, broke up Hamas on the Hudson. Crying sophomores, shrieking professors, double-talking outside agitators — rounded up, plunked on paddy wagons, and slapped on the wrists, alas, but at least temporarily out of commission.
This, my friends, is how it’s done. Because, God knows, the cops showed more self-control than I would have to these Morningside morons. The first one to shout “Free Gaza” would have to do it through a mouth full of broken teeth. The first holding a “Divest” sign would have to hoist it with cracked knuckles. And the first Jew tweeting “Cease Fire Now!” would have so much mace sprayed in her face, her eyes would turn all four colors of the Palestinian flag.
This is why I am not a cop. This is also why the New York Police Department — and every Blue brigade that’s been summoned to these conflagrations — deserves oodles of kudos for the job they did and the way they did it. I’m sure many of these officers agreed with the protesters — we’re not talking Einsteins here, on either side of the grass — but they followed reasonable directions in a professional manner, and they deserve our gratitude and admiration.
And when the green-tent vermin swarm back onto the lawns of Columbia, NYU, Yale, UCLA, or any other ivy-choked nest of minacious radicalism, let the liars on the left be met head on by what’s right.
This has been a Rabbinical Reflection from Rabbi Sol Solomon, Temple Sons of Bitches in Great Neck, New York.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with playwright and director DAVID WILLINGER
Topics include: Bring Them Back, teaching, Theater for the New City, Judaism.
Segment aired April 27, 2024 as part of the 941st episode of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio/video podcast program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Rabbi Sol Solomon chats with motivational coach and podcaster Tony Dufresne
Topics include: Surrounded by Idiots, radio, Disneyworld, college.
Segment airs July 7, 2018 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Dave chats with University of Northern Colorado student Trevor Okeson
Topics include: gun control, AR-15, radio, Christianity, music, 21 Pilots. Segment aired Feb. 17, 2018 as part of the “Dave’s Gone By” radio program hosted by Dave Lefkowitz.
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Here is the 618th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio Aug. 19, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com. Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guests: theater critic Herbert M. Simpson, Dave’s wife Joyce
Featuring: Dave interviews theater critic Herb Simpson. Plus: Rabbi Sol Solomon offers his Rabbinical Reflection on Charlottesville (“On Both Sides”), Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Inside Broadway, Saturday Segues (college, In the News), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (“worst of”).
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (crumbs, Joyce in Montreal, school’s in, Rusty Scupper) 00:35:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 01:23:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – College 01:45:00 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:19:00 GUEST: Herb Simpson 03:00:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later – Worst Of? 03:32:30 Friends 03:41:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #150 – “On Both Sides” 03:49:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News 04:29:30 Weather 04:31:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Aug. 19, 2017 Playlist: “Sweet Beulah Land” (00:47:00; Frank Newsome). “College Hornpipe” (01:24:30; Mark O’Conner). “College – The Best Six Weeks of My Life” (01:26:30; Emo Phillips). “Old College Avenue” (01:31:00; Harry Chapin). “College of Ice” (01:35:30) & “Clean Steve” (03:55:00; Robyn Hitchcock). “UNC Fight Song” (01:39:00; University of Northern Colorado Marching Band). “Bright College Days” (01:40:00; Tom Lehrer). “Wrapped” (On Your Feet 2016 Broadway cast). “The Simpsons Theme” (02:58:00; Brizzy Voices). “When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky” (03:06:30), “Lenny Bruce” (03:15:00) & “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” (03:20:30; Bob Dylan). “Race War” (03:50:00; Ice-T). “Barcelona” (03:58:30; Rufus Wainwright). “Eclipse” (04:05:30; John Denver). “Both Sides Now” (04:09:00; Judy Collins). “Before We Begin” (04:35:00; Broadcast).
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Here is the 604th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio May 6, 2017. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guests: theater critic Michael Grossberg (Columbus Dispatch), Dave’s wife Joyce
Featuring: Dave chats with Ohio theater critic Michael Grossberg. Plus: Inside Broadway (Tony nominations), Greeley Crimes & Old Times, Saturday Segues (Nurse!, In the News), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (nurse)
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (graduation day, the comedy bell, timed out, Blind Date in Chennai, ao) 00:48:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 01:18:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Nurse! 01:37:00 DAVE GOES FURTHER IN w/ Joyce (free SUNY, nasty Nastase) 01:45:00 INSIDE BROADWAY 02:23:00 GUEST: Michael Grossberg 03:17:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (nurses) 03:36:00 Friends 03:43:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – In the News 04:07:30 DAVE GOES OUT
“Happy Nurse” (01:18:30) & “Hot Meat” (01:34:30; The Sugarcubes). “Nurse” (01:22:30; Derek & Clive w/ Peter Cook & Dudley Moore). “I Want a Nurse” (01:23:00; Jack Barrett). “The Nurse” (01:25:30; The White Stripes). “My Big Nurse” (01:29:00; Brian Eno & David Byrne). Amelie Medley (02:13:30; Philippa Soo & Amelie cast). “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” (Forbidden Broadway w/ Nora Mae Lyng). “Time Heals Everything” (Mack & Mabel 1974 Broadway cast w/ Bernadette Peters). “Ain’t Talkin'” (03:19:00), “Drifter’s Escape” (03:28:00) & “T.V. Talkin’ Song” (03:30:30; Bob Dylan). “Child of the Philippines” (03:44:30; Here Lies Love 2015 off-Broadway cast w/ Conrad Ricamora). “Replaced” (03:48:00; Christine Lavin). “The Strike” (03:51:30; Paint Your Wagon 2016 Encores! cast). “Big Green Freak” (03:52:30; The Toxic Avenger 2009 off-Broadway cast). “Dead Flowers” (03:54:30; The Rolling Stones). “Graduation Day” (04:12:00; Daddy Long Legs 2015 off-Broadway cast w/ Megan McGinnis).
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Here is the 556th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired May 7, 2016. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Inside Broadway (Tony nominations), Rabbi Sol Solomon’s Rabbinical Refection (Donald Trump), Saturday Segues (In the News, Robert Johnson), Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (moms), Greeley Crimes & Old Times.
Guest: Dave’s wife Joyce
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN (graduation day) 00:22:30 SATURDAY SEGUE (Robert Johnson) 00:42:30 Sponsors 00:50:00 INSIDE BROADWAY (Tony nominations) 01:51:30 Sponsors 01:54:30 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (moms) 02:16:00 Friends 02:31:00 RABBI SOL SOLOMON’S RABBINICAL REFLECTION #139 (Donald Trump) 02:41:00 Weather 02:42:30 SATURDAY SEGUE (In the News) 03:09:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 03:37:00 DAVE GOES OUT w/ Joyce
May 8, 2016 Playlist: “Terraplane Blues” (00:27:30; Canned Heat). “Stones in My Passway” (00:30:30) & “Love in Vain Blues (Alternate)” (00:35:30; Robert Johnson). “Malted Milk Blues” (00:33:00; Lucinda Williams). “If I were a Rich Man” (01:43:00; Fiddler on the Roof 2016 Broadway cast w/ Danny Burstein). “Lonesome Day Blues” (01:56:30), “Tough Mama” (02:04:00) & “Lord Protect My Child” (02:08:00; Bob Dylan). “Candidate” ({alternate version] 02:43:30; David Bowie). “Alberta” (02:48:30; The Kingston Trio). “My Mother’s Brisket” (02:51:00; Rick Moranis). “Dead Flowers” ({alternate version} 02:55:00; The Rolling Stones).
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Here is the 536th episode of the long-running radio show/podcast, Dave’s Gone By, which aired on UNC Radio, Dec. 12, 2015. Info: davesgoneby.com.
Featuring: Dave chats with old friend Jeff Goodman; Inside Broadway; Rabbi Solomon’s Rabbinical Reflection (Hanukkah Haiku); Saturday Segues (Frank Sinatra, vacation); Bob Dylan – Sooner & Later (Sinatra’s Shadows); Greeley Crimes & Old Times.
Host: Dave Lefkowitz Guest: former guest co-host Jeff Goodman, Dave’s wife Joyce
00:00:01 DAVE GOES IN w/ Joyce (so long semester, snu, temps, Eggley Bagelface, The Soup, Mama Doni, Hawaii Kai, Kaleidoscope, horse head) 01:12:30 GREELEY CRIMES & OLD TIMES 01:47:30 GUEST: Jeff Goodman 02:36:00 SATURDAY SEGUE – Frank Sinatra 02:59:00 Sponsors 03:02:00 INSIDE BROADWAY 03:23:00 BOB DYLAN – Sooner & Later (Sinatra’s Shadows) 03:40:30 Sponsors 03:45:30 RABBINICAL REFLECTION #132 – Hanukkah Haiku 03:51:00 Friends 03:46:30 SATURDAY SEGUE – Vacation 04:16:30 Weather & Thanks 04:20:30 DAVE GOES OUT
Dec. 12, 2015 Playlist: “Chanukah Fever” (Mama Doni). “Chanukah” (01:08:30; Six13). “The Coffee Song” (02:39:00). “It’s the Same Old Dream” (02:42:00), “It Never Entered My Mind” (02:44:30), “You Make Me Feel So Young” ({live}; 02:47:30), “You’ll Never Walk Alone” (02:51:00) & “I Have Dreamed” (04:22:00; Frank Sinatra). “A Brand New Day” (03:19:30; The Wiz 2015 TV cast). “That Lucky Old Sun” (03:27:30), “What’ll I Do” (03:31:00) & “Stay With Me” (03:34:30; Bob Dylan). “The Draidel Song” (03:50:00; Mickey Katz). “Your Mind is on Vacation” (03:57:30; Van Morrison). “Take a Musical Break” (04:00:30; Dottie Burman). “Albuquerque” (04:02:30; Neil Young). “Take Me Away” (04:06:30; Oasis). “Homeward Bound” (04:11:00; Simon & Garfunkel).
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