Is the Priest Jewish, and Other Ways a Good Boy Can Torment His Mother

Tchaikovsky Sounds Funny

Today’s lesson: if you are in a crowd and someone offers you a mint, they may not just be being polite. They may actually be trying to tell you something.

It is hard for people of different religions to know what to do in another religion’s house of worship. For instance, like the mint offering, when you enter a synagogue and they offer you a yarmulke, they are not just being polite and you are not supposed to politely decline. Trust me on this one.

Did you hear the next Pope might be Jewish? One of the names mentioned has a Jewish mother, which in the Jewish religion makes him Jewish. I wonder if he ever stood up in Hebrew school and announced "some day, I want to grow up and become a Cardinal?" Of course, they probably thought he meant a St. Louis Cardinal and thought nothing of it...

When the away team hits a home run, it is a tradition in several stadiums that the fan who catches the ball throws the ball back. Now, when President Bush throws out the first pitch, it is proper to throw that ball back?

I recently saw a movie that so bad, it got me wondering: how did the studio ever approve, much less continue to make, this movie? Did the studio lose a bet, is this evidence of way too much drug and alcohol use among studio executives, or are there actually people who earn a living who were running around excitedly stating “this is the greatest script I’ve seen in a long time”, in which case, all I can state is: there is excellent psychological treatment available for these people.