I was considering Emma's timely and well-put remarks regarding western womens' problematic encounters with customs of mandatory head-covering in Muslim states. We concentrate, of course, on the several and variegated mandates of female modesty that always include the covering of the head.

While we click our tongues at this (without peradventure) obsessive preoccupation with female modesty (and, male, for that matter...) may we not pause and reflect how, across all of the Yahwist Cults,and for both sexes, hair is to be hidden, shaved, shaved and replaced with a wig (if you are some sort of crazed haredin chick) symbolically hidden (a skullcap), or otherwise obscured (a wimple, cassock, turban) and either mandatorily allowed to grow (the taliban beard and hair) or cut at the peril of the wearer (Samson) and never, ever, should Yahweh be confronted by uncovered hair in church, temple, or mosque. It'll drive him nuts.

So, I put it to you, Yahwists of whatever stripe. (You have your Old Testament, or Jewish Yahwists, Your New Testament, or Christian Yahwists, and your Koranic, or Muslim Yahwists), what is up with the hair thing?