Recent content by dzheremi

Palestinian statehood got a little bit closer recently -- the trouble, as you can read at the link, is that the 'right' countries (primarily the USA and its allies in Western Europe) need to recognize it for it to have a serious chance of occurring, and they've all drunk the Israeli Kool-Aid...

You mean Santa-related Sales Day and Cadbury Egg-related Sales Day? Those are two of my favorites of our many Happy Holidays. It's multiple days in a row in the middle of the week. It'd be like me trying to get Holy Week off of work. No employer is going to go for that. I've heard of tons of...

You can't be promoting everything else and then be surprised when everything else becomes more popular. Rather than being considered a cornerstone of American life as it once was (debates about any kind of 'essential' Christian character of America as a country set aside), Christianity has...

Yep! That's a common phenomenon. At least it was working when you needed it to. :) British-American linguist and University of Edinburgh lecturer Geoffrey K. Pullum published a book of collected essays in 1991 called The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax, the title essay of which covered this...

Because we're a stupid country in a toxic relationship with the worst states the region has to offer (Israel and Saudi Arabia).

It would seem that JK Rowling has mastered the art of remaining in the news despite not having done anything of note since the Harry Potter phenomenon ended. I was never a part of that (read the first book when I was maybe 20-21 because a girl I was seeing at the time recommended that I give it...

English is my first language, though Spanish is not far behind, since I've spoken it since approximately age 4 and can't remember a time when I didn't know it. So I was raised in two languages thanks to my grandmother being from Mexico and making sure that her grandchildren grew up speaking it...

It's okay. :) I just thought it was a funny suggestion, given the thread topic.

Breakin': Electric Boogaloo (Hmm...doesn't quite have the same ring to it, honestly!) Invasion of the Body Snatcher The 1 Blow Field of Dream Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stain I Am the Best! Robin Hood: Man in Tights Attack of the Killer Tomato Child of the Corn Close Encounters of the...

Nope! Sebaa سبع means "Seven", so that won't do. :)

One Man and a Little Lady The Bad News Bear Valley of the Doll Battle Beyond the Star Patriot Game War of the Rose One String Samurai

Excellent post. In the Coptic Orthodox tradition, which is relevant to this post as we are the only Church that I know of to read the Apocalypse of St. John in its entirety as part of our Holy Week services, what I believe you have called the "mini-epistles" above are interspersed with the...

Not my area of the world specifically, but judging from the various groups I'm a member of on FB that focus on Middle Eastern Christianity as it is manifested around the world, I'm seeing a lot of activity in Bolivia, Costa Rica, and lately Peru. I know there's been a Russian Orthodox Church in...

In honor of the former president's legal troubles, One Angry Man The Magnificent One One Bride for One Brother The One Commandment The Man With A Brain (one of my favorite goofy comedies of all time) 1 Jump Street Night of the Creep The Amigo (starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Chevy Chase)

To be fair, that's how it was when they taught sex ed starting when I was that age, and that didn't include any discussion of homosexuality. That's just 6th graders being 6th graders.