Sasha Cohen (comedian) as gay Austrian

We went to see Borat after dinner on Thanksgiving. It’s not the kind of movie I usually enjoy. I cringed and laughed through it. Borat is actually English comedian Sasha Cohen in real life. My friend Carolyn Wagner sent me this today. It’s Sasha Cohen playing Bruno, an Austrian gay reporter, interviewing the pastor of …

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Turkeys Are Our Friends

Our son Noel is home for Thanksgiving (with his cat Linus.) Noel has been a vegerarian since high school. So we usually do Thanksgiving without poultry & meats. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* One vegetarian shares the bond she developed with turkeys after finding alternatives to this traditional Thanksgiving comfort food. and Turkeys love to be caressed, and people …

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Opinion: When religion loses its credibility

What if Christian leaders are wrong about homosexuality? I suppose, much as a newspaper maintains its credibility by setting the record straight, church leaders would need to do the same: Correction: Despite what you might have read, heard or been taught throughout your churchgoing life, homosexuality is, in fact, determined at birth and is not …

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for tomorrow: TEACHING ABOUT THANKSGIVING

. . . For an Indian, who is also a school teacher, Thanksgiving was never an easy holiday for me to deal with in class. I sometimes have felt like I learned too much about “the Pilgrims and the Indians.” Every year I have been faced with the professional and moral dilemma of just how …

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the “Fuck housework” poster

I don’t often promote other people’s stuff, but Noel gave me this very special poster two years ago for Christmas and some people have asked about it.     Noel grew up seeing this photograph: From left to right ~ there is my sister Mimi, a photographer from southern California who my mother tried to …

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Yinglish

I was looking up the word “shpiel” after it came up in a conversation with Alec yesterday. By the way, Alec worked as a Shabbes goy in New York City before I met him. Both these words and more are defined here: Yinglish on Wikipedia. My mother had a copy of the book The Joys …

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