Halakha and latent O.C.D. make a grand cocktail...

Too true. There was once a piece in The Commentator about this, and the author tried to link every obsession with the words, "He worries that his prayers will not be accepted if he doesn't..." and the like. That's wrong: Obsessive people don't need a reason. They (we) just do this stuff. This article is a must-read. Nice ending, too, for the religious amongst us.

This is too funny. Apparently, crotch-grabbing and wedgie-giving are legal moves in Olympic (all?) water-polo.