"Honey, I shrunk the Torah!"

Today being New Year's Day only for us Gregorian Calandar fans, I figured to lighten-up and show y'all that EVERYTHING Moses brought down from Mount Sinai now can be displayed on the head of a pin. My sweet wife - known to all as "MWTC" (My Wife the Christian) - was as Twice-Born as Author/Psychologist James Dobson ever dreamt of being. But Dobs and boozey counterpart Chris Hitchins would debate before their throngs at the 92-Street 'Y' Re the portents of this teeny meld of Religion and Science, MWTC would simply be fascinated and mildly amused. http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/24/scientists-inscribe-entire-bible-onto-pinhead/

Absent the way cool Catholics next door, MWTC played cheerful
"Shabbos Goy" for the rest of our PLEASE!-I-Can't-Turn-Off-My-Car's-Headlights-On-Friday-Night! Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. I was disqualified, having been born Jewish and remaining an
"Incomplete Jew" as the Dobsons, Ted Haggards and sundry Fundis are wont to say. Years after MWTC's Alzheimer's forced her into a Skilled Nursing Home the presence of our kids, ages 20, 16 and 16 is enough to keep some calling my digs
Der schvarzter haus.

No biggie: First thing I taught em how to do was "Walk and talk just like Poppa." Not just great shtick, but VERY useful once their friends start to ask: "Why does he walk and talk funny?"
"Cause he got hurt when he was born!" End of story. Kids want it straight and that's it. Worked for me as a Shrink, works for them as my kids. The rest, professional colleagues included, can go pee on their Guccis.

Pimp My Rice Paddy!

Those in Japan who celebrate New Year's Day did so hours ago. If we truly are a small world (remembering as all Pols everywhere must that we are NEVER "One World!") what difference can a few Time Zone make? Happy New Year!

Matt Yglesias, one-time Federal Prosecutor who no one at the White House recalls having fired, is on a tear re CNN et als Fast-Track Canonization of Benazir Bhutto. Yglesias posts a 1998 New York Times profile strongly suggestive of Bhutto's being......well, an Imelda Marcos-class Kleptocrat during both her PM terms. Who knew? Absent current "Daily Shows" we're stuck with CNN hagiography. Sure you could try expat Pakistani scholars like Tariq Ali - but then the terrorists win! I wonder how in hell a world-class thief like Benazir could fall for Condi Rice's "Trust me, we've-got-your-back!" hustle. Condi is not Our Nation's most competent Secretary of State. And Dick Cheney is neither a member of the Senate nor the Executive. Who's a Pakistani Pol-cum-Saint-cum-Con Artist gonna believe? Well, for a mere $20,000 a week fee Benazir coulda hired famed Nixon-Reagan trickster Roger Stone to steer her right.



Roger's contempt for anything Bush is boundless; called a "State of the Art Sleazeball," with Nixon's picture tattooed on his back (Courtesy, "Ink Monkey" of Venice Beach, CA), with an "Account" like Benazir, it's even money she'd be alive. "Now" as Secretary Seward said moments after Abraham Lincoln's passing, "she belongs to the ages." The fruits of Matt Yglesias' research follows.

http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/12/bhutto_and_corruption_1.php