Humor, The Best

The World’s ‘Funniest’ Jokes

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New York Times, January 27, 2002 By TOM KUNTZ IF you’re a careful reader of this newspaper, you’re already aware that British scientists have released preliminary results of their search for the world’s funniest joke. Reprinted below is the best-rated joke in their global online survey, which will be followed up with further diligent study. (You may be [Read More]
Humor, Situations

Office Jokes

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I’M ON A COMMITTEE! Oh give me some pity, I’m on a committee, which means that from morning to night, we attend, and amend, and contend, and defend without a conclusion in sight. We confer and concur, we defer and demur, and reiterate all of our thoughts. We revise the agenda with frequent addenda, and consider a load of reports. We compose and propose, [Read More]
Books, Non-Fiction

Reports from Berlin, 1920-33

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A couple of months ago (March 2003) I started reading Joseph Roth’s newpaper columns about life in Berlin in the 1920s.  He turns out to be a master of short essays on social life. I became so enamored with his powerfully perceptive prose that I started to read his novels. Savoy is a fine story image [Read More]
Books, Fiction

The Story of Job

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Roth has the ability to create suspense even though we are reading about the "Life of a Simple" man. The central theme of the novel is the role of destiny in human life that has become surrounded by the products of science and technology. The tale begins with a prophecy in prerevolutionary Russia and image [Read More]
Europe, Travel

Germany

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In July I had a chance to visit Germany. I wanted to see not the big cities but smaller places. Weimar, a small city in which Goethe spent most of his life and later became synonymous with German high culture and the failure of the short-lived German Republic, 1918-1933, proved to be a feast for image [Read More]
Drama, Movies

Cold Mountain

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This Civil War movie works because it is has historical depth and employs a love story very effectively.  Instead of going overboard with passion, the lovers take cautious steps toward each other and just as they allow themselves a kiss and the dream of a life together, Inman (Jude Law) is forced to join the image [Read More]
Humor, The Best

A Few Questions

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How can you make holy water at home? You boil the hell out of it. How do crazy people go through the forest? They take the psycho path. What do fish say when they hit a concrete wall? Damn! What do eskimos get from sitting on the ice too long? Polaroids What do you call a boomerang that doesn’t [Read More]