Category: In Which We Set Ourselves Up for Mockery

Our Question Today: How Accurate is the Catholic Marriage Discussion Guide at predicting marital discord 22 years later? If you married a Catholic, you may have been administered this test by the Church. You were asked a series of questions. Then your answers were evaluated to see if you agreed with each other, and more…

I liked the ending to the Sopranos. It has been mob weekend with mia famiglia. I rented the Godfather Parts One and Two. Part One had a satisfying ending, and of course Part Two ends with Michael’s family relationships destroyed. After I saw Pt 1 and half of Pt 2, I was thinking what might…

I feel sorry for Paris Hilton. Not because she went to jail, because she did break the law. But because they put her in jail, then sprung her from jail. Then they said she could teleconference in, then they came and got her into a police car. Then they said she had to go back.…

Ellen says: several hours ago, I attended a viewing of the CNN Democratic Debate at Marcia’s house. Some of you may remember Marcia as my Friend of The Jewish Persuasion. I asked her to contribute as a guest blogger. Enjoy her typos. Democratic Debate: $74/month for cable Vanilla Vodka: ?? Frangelica: ?? Sugar and Lemons:…

Well, the long-term love affair between my husband and his celebrity girly crush Chris Matthews is over. I was pretty enraged too, but I didn’t have to write a break-up letter to MSNBC. It all fell apart when Chris devoted an hour of Hardball to the new books on Hillary Clinton that are coming out…

Mom: “So, can you copy that Take This Waltz song you liked to my iTunes so I can hear it?”Me: “Sure. Hey, did you read that Wikipedia article about Leonard Cohen? He uses so much Christian imagery in his music; I was sort of surprised to read he was Jewish.”Mom: (strange look)Me: “What?”Mom: “Leonard. COHEN.”…

Gary and I tooled off to Memphis this weekend for one reason: to go to the BNL set at the Beale Street Music Festival. Sure, there was the siren song of the snoots, and we did visit the shiny shrine to Elvis that is Graceland, but what lured us there was the Barenaked Ladies hour-long…

Without going into too many details, I am going to bed mad at Gary. I know all the books say not to, and I don’t do it often, but I see no other option. Here’s my grievance: I foolishly opened up to my sister-in-law about why I take Celexa. (I know: it’s surprising that you,…

About 26 years ago, I was picking something up at the college post office, and I overheard the woman behind the counter say, “No, someone else was shot.” I thought about it all the way across the quad. It seemed to have importance. It wasn’t until I walked into my boyfriend’s dorm and saw a…

On the way out this morning, I heard the CNN anchor try to tease me past a commercial with “What would you think of a someone disciplining a child … with a stun gun? What if it was his own child? An eighteen month old child?” They way the anchor kept cranking up the drama…