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I’m signed up for the Pew Research Center’s email newsletter, which means I get a weekly batch of reports on opinion polls and demographic trends.  That might not sound like a lot of fun, but Pew does have a lighter side.  Today they linked to an online collection of holiday cards sent this year by [...]

The Onion has some good Christmas articles worth checking out.  The one on Charlie Brown probably won’t make sense if you didn’t grow up in the U.S.  The Christmas in Iraq article is great and reminds me of a certain holiday tune sung by Mr. Garrison on South Park, which I’ll refrain from linking to [...]

The following poem has been on the bulletin board in the mailroom of the sociology department at Princeton for as long as I’ve been here.  I’m not sure how many students have ever stopped to read it, and since I can’t find a trace of it on the internet, I thought I’d post it.
It’s cruder [...]

I’m having trouble imagining another situation like the one I faced yesterday where the same sentence could mean two totally different things.  The imam I was interviewing hollered something out to the mosque’s barber about either circumcising me and making me a Muslim or finishing off a carton of strawberries.  Considering the statement came from [...]