Here's that post I wrote that I couldn't post

So a few older bochurim from a certain yeshiva take a night off from their shlichus to go to hear a speech by a presidential hopeful.

It tugged on that cap that I have under my hood that reads "Caution: Do not open while hot!"

There's two types of serving Hashem: Kum V'Aseh and Shev V'al Taaseh. It's one thing to not do something that you are supposed to do. It's quite another to get up and do something that you shouldn't be doing. Shlucho shel adam kmoso mamosh. So in place of sitting and learning, or in place of getting someone else to learn, or in place of figuring out a mivtzah, or in place of sitting on the proverbial thumbs and doing nothing, we get up, go thru the hassle - the major hassle - of arranging transport, standing in ridiculously long lines for hours, and finally achieving our goal of doing nothing all night.

To top it off, at 7:30 the next morning, in lieu of learning or even talking chassidus, we need discuss the events of last night. We need to discuss that which hasn't a remote chance of aiding in our avodah. We taught innocent (that's wishful thinking) kids that it's ok to kill a night and even to boast about it in the morning.

We farbrenged about cherishing the hours between krias shema sheal hamittah and the end of shacharis.

We still believe in that.