Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I can’t tell if I found this video incredibly funny because I love the sound of Yiddish* or if it’s actually funny standing alone. What do you say? _______________________ *I’m a total dope at learning languages, but I’ve always suspected that if there were a language I could manage to
Continue readingThis weekend, Mr. Bookworm and I finally got around to watching “Koran by Heart,” an HBO documentary about an annual Koran memorization contest held in Cairo during Ramadan. The documentary followed three ten-year old children — a boy from Tajikistan, a girl from the Maldives, and a boy from Senegal.
Continue reading“Schvitzer” is a wonderful Yiddish word. Its literal meaning, derived from German, is “to sweat.” Yiddish, however, has layered something entirely different on top of it: a Schvitzer is an empty boaster, one who doesn’t actually do anything, but who presents himself at the end of the project covered with
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