Judaism is not a religion. It’s something western languages don’t have a single word for. We are, to paraphrase Dara Horn, a joinable tribal group with closed ritual practices. To reduce us to religion is colonial thinking and minimizes the richness of our culture and peoplehood.

I think he means the "barrier" of theater kids being interesting to play with makes it harder for people who are boring to play with to find people to play with them.

Please, nobody who straightforwardly calls his opponents "dethpicable" would be allowed anywhere near the Democratic Party leadership.

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Oooh. Thank you.

God, yes. The SAT prep book they gave us in the prep class in high school (it was that kind of school district) was the first to ever explicitly say to me "you are not supposed to choose the correct answer, you are supposed to choose the answer the test maker thinks is correct". Mind: blown!

Thanks for mentioning this. I have a couple of previous collections by him, but they're both 35 years old and I suspect he might have written one or two things since then.

At its worst, the shingles rash on my chest was so blackened and crusted over with bloody scabs I couldn't see my nipple. (I had a rash in two places at once, across the left side of my chest and just under my rear right shoulder, which is not ordinary at all.)

In the comic strip Flash wasn't the Jets QB. He got his nickname playing polo in college.

How do you drink it all up, that is, what do you find is the easiest/best way to liquefy the coconut shell?

That was how Harry Abrams described it after the fact, anyway, he said he was inspired to publish a retrospective when he saw how few people came to the gallery exhibit of his work.