Protest and Reasons therefor
I was in the street Saturday. If you weren't. why not? A very Clearheaded Explanation of where we are and where we are going.
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Trump Portraits
If Michael Moore's collection of Trump Portraits doesn't make your day,  I don't know what will.
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Five Years of Poetry
April 3 marks five years since I started writing poetry and lyrics. It has been a rollicking good time.
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Must reads
Read it because it is a great and cautionary book. Buy it because that will piss off Mark Zuckerberg, who wants to crush it because he fears the truth. Make it a best seller. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism And now for something completely different. You must read Revenge of the Librarians  (and all the author’s works). Possibly the funniest book of cartoons ever.
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MGW: Still Popular
Marjorie “Marge” Gottleib Wolfe contributed to PSACOT for two decades. She died Aug. 7, 2022, age 84. Remarkably, not a week goes by when there isn't at least one Google search for her work. Thanks for the laughter Marge.
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Playing With The Third Rail
As an engineer, Elon Musk must realize that any amperage over 10 mA makes it impossible to let go of an electrical circuit. He has firmly grasped the third rail of American politics (Social Security) and it seems likely to me he has hit 10mA already.
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The To Hell with Bowdlerization Society

As this time of year, I like to point to the most popular items of all times, and of 20'24 in particular.

All Time

Groundhog Day The Movie Of course a lot of people are always interested in the greatest movie of all time.

Life is short, and we do not have too much time to gladden the hearts of those who travel the way with us (Although it was posted in 2018, scarcely a week goes by that someone doesn’t click on this prayer.)

Women in Journalism Movies I guess there just aren’t many pages on this subject, and that it is a frequent J-school assignment. Either that, or my cogent analysis has gone… well viral is a bit much, but still…

And Journalism movies.-

Humor: Four Musicians of the Apocalypse  At least once a month someone stumbles on this item. Yes, I do have the artist’s permission for the post.

How To Read The Obituaries by Roz Chast, another hardy perennial.

False Modesty “I went to school in Cambridge.” Particularly enjoyed the comments.

Someone Else’s Poetry Intersects Mine

Jon Carroll Cat Columns

Creosote: King of the Coal Tar Distillates

2024

Beloved PSACOT regular M.G. Wolfe died in August 2022; it took me two years to find out why she stopped contributing. I added a link to her obit, and her friends have been dropping by weekly. Index of Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe appearances in PSACOT

One Hip Dude

Reading Cereal Boxes

Fake News

Things No One Will Ever Do Again: Set Type (admittedly because I promoted the hell out of it among the target audience of The Tech staffers.

Best Moment of my Life

SF vs. LA

Really? A Vile of Gold? In This and That.

More Hardboiled Dialog from Monsieur Spade

Invariants: Who Knew There Was A Word For It

The AI Song

Groundhog Day The Movie, Buddhism and Me (presumably because of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire)

Highlights from the Tom Stoppard journalism play Night and Day

Ed Fredkin Dies

Wire Service Days

Squirrel Swirl/Bearly audible

The Top 12 Rejected Superbowl Ads
View | Feb 16, 2023 1:41

Schindler Love Song/Parody Lead Sheets
View | Feb 7, 2023 2:04
http://www.schindler.org/sheet
https://tinyurl.com/sheetspes

Silly Signs View | Feb 6, 2023 11:01

KBPS Adminitrative History
View | Jan 28, 2023 1:40

KBPS at 43
View | Jan 27, 2023 6:49

The Boy’s Experience
View | Jan 27, 2023 5:47

Geezer Humor
View | Jan 22, 2023 5:54

Annual Groundhog Day The Movie Item
View | Jan 16, 2023 2:33

Jobless Job Posting
View | Jan 14, 2023 2:02

East Side Boy
View | Jan 3, 2023 8:02

World’s Best Cuisines?
View | Jan 1, 2023 1:17

Christmas Humor
View | Dec 30, 2022 1:17

bombing
View | Dec 18, 2022 6:06

Who Was Cheaper: UPI or INS?
View | Nov 26, 2022 10:37

There Are No Little Things: Explanation
View | Nov 12, 2022 5:46

Meme-o-rama
View | Nov 9, 2022 12:15

Dormphone Days
View | Oct 23, 2022 9:16

Which Programming Language You’re Using
View | Oct 19, 2022 8:16

Railroads Redux: The Impending Death of Newspapers
View | Oct 7, 2022 9:13

Mari Plant Page
View | Oct 6, 2022 3:40
https://tinyurl.com/upiplant

Wounded Bird
View | Oct 1, 2022 6:02

Paul Schindler Love Song Recital
View | Sep 19, 2022 10:52

How I Ended Up At… UPI [Page]
View | Sep 13, 2022 1:29

JON CARROLL CAT COLUMNS
View | Sep 10, 2022 2:06

Getting Into Journalism/Getting A Job There
View | Sep 6, 2022 10:17

Paul on the Top5 List (Precis)
View | Sep 3, 2022 9:42

Paul Makes No. 1 on Top 5 (precis)
View | Sep 2, 2022 11:37

Paul Schindler: Number 1 on the Top5 (Full Text)
View | Sep 2, 2022 11:11

Paul on the Top5 List (Full Text)
View | Aug 31, 2022 12:38

Humor: Memes
View | Aug 28, 2022 1:14

MGW: 42 Years Of Yiddishkeit
View | Jul 25, 2022 2:11

Your Hand on my Knee
View | Jul 12, 2022 5:07

I Had Some Light
View | Jul 12, 2022 5:02

HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE by Dale Carnegie
View | Jul 6, 2022 1:02

King of the Keys
View | Jun 17, 2022 9:20

https://tinyurl.com/kingkeys

Poem: Reincarnation
View | May 31, 2022 4:11

Poem: Three Little Words
View | May 31, 2022 4:05

Poem: On Being Your Pillow
View | May 31, 2022 4:03

Poem: Citta
View | May 31, 2022 3:56

Poem: Happiest Man On Earth
View | May 31, 2022 3:50

Humor: Fun with Science
View | May 19, 2022 7:51

My Old Man
View | May 16, 2022 10:27

Work Life Balance: It’s OK, even here.
View | May 3, 2022 3:56

Poem: Different Ways of Saying I Love You
View | Apr 21, 2022 8:45

Poem: Happiness Is Wanting What You Have
View | Apr 21, 2022 8:41

Poem: Cut Them Off At The Impasse
View | Apr 21, 2022 8:37

Poem: The Man You Deserve
View | Apr 21, 2022 8:32

Poem: Pauli’s In Our Garden
View | Apr 21, 2022 8:31

Poem: Six-Foot, Woo!
View | Apr 21, 2022 8:27 AM

Poem: Gratitude
View | Apr 4, 2022 9:40 AM

Lost Vocabulary
View | Apr 1, 2022 11:28 AM

Poem: Our First Heart to Heart
View | Mar 29, 2022 8:47 AM

MGW: From Wordle to Jewdle
View | Mar 27, 2022 9:02 PM

MGW: Up the Down Staircase 2022
View | Mar 23, 2022 11:25 AM

MGW: The Importance Of Touching
View | Mar 19, 2022 1:08 PM

Poem: The Queen of Letting Go
View | Mar 16, 2022 11:13 AM

Poem: Pandemic Thanksgiving
View | Mar 16, 2022 11:06 AM

Poem: Farmers Market Blues
View | Mar 16, 2022 9:55 AM

Poem: Meter and Muse
View | Mar 16, 2022 9:51 AM

Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In “Couch Gag”
View | Mar 11, 2022 2:10 PM

Enjoying The Journey
View | Mar 8, 2022 8:32 AM

Poem: Karma
View | Feb 22, 2022 8:00 PM

Poem: Listening and Learning
View | Feb 22, 2022 7:56 PM

Poem: Words of Love
View | Feb 22, 2022 7:54 PM

MGW: A Clean Desk? What Does It Mean?
View | Feb 18, 2022 11:28 AM

InformationWEEK 1985: Off to a rough start
View | Feb 11, 2022 12:19 PM

Loving The Content: Lyrics
View | Feb 9, 2022 12:58 PM

Poem: Goodbye Patrice
View | Feb 1, 2022 9:54 AM

Your Pet’s Final Gift
View | Feb 1, 2022 9:49 AM

Poem: Loving the Content
View | Jan 31, 2022 5:07 PM

MGW: Here’s To The Ladies Who Lunch
View | Jan 25, 2022 9:11 AM

MGW: From Vaccine Envy To Peter Pan Syndrome
View | Jan 21, 2022 3:42 PM

U.S. Senate candidate Peckarsky submits letter to Wisconsin Elections Commission
View | Jan 16, 2022 6:23 AM

Poem: Joy in the Morning
View | Jan 5, 2022 1:47 PM

Poem: Weepy
View | Jan 5, 2022 1:47 PM

Poem: Thinking Out Loud
View | Jan 5, 2022 1:47 PM

Poem: 9
Jan 5, 2022 1:47 PM

Poem: a
Jan 5, 2022 1:47 PM

Poem: Road Ahead
View | Dec 22, 2021 2:43 PM

Poem: Casual Kindness
View | Nov 25, 2021 2:24 PM

Poem: Contributing to Joy
View | Nov 25, 2021 2:22 PM

Poem: Casual Kindness
View | Nov 25, 2021 2:18 PM

Poem: Dream Come True
View | Nov 25, 2021 2:15 PM

Poem: Reciprocation
View | Nov 25, 2021 2:11 PM

Poem: The Admiral
View | Nov 25, 2021 2:10 PM

Making A Difference
View | Nov 15, 2021 9:18 AM

Words of Widsom Memes
View | Nov 13, 2021 10:51 AM

Mgw: From Lexiko To Scrabble; From Facebook To Meta
View | Nov 12, 2021 9:07 AM

My Very First Christmas Column/Untied Way
View | Nov 5, 2021 12:18 PM

I’m Just An Old Gynophile
View | Nov 1, 2021 6:17 AM

I Thought This Was All Settled By The Civil War
View | Oct 28, 2021 1:18 PM

Thoughts on the missing tactile element
View | Oct 20, 2021 4:28 AM

Esalen
View | Oct 5, 2021 7:13 PM

Poem: Your Hand on my Knee
View | Sep 30, 2021 7:14 PM

Poem: Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There
View | Sep 30, 2021 7:13 PM

PP&L Fires Newly Rehired Ex-President
View | Sep 18, 2021 12:21 PM

MGW: “Hard Hats Are Usually Unisex”
View | Sep 18, 2021 12:16 PM

Fake Trever Noah Ad Run in NY Times
View | Aug 27, 2021 10:35 AM

PSACOT Word Cloud
View | Aug 12, 2021 8:38 AM

MGW: The NIMBY Syndrome Creates The Perfect Classroom Lesson
View | Jun 24, 2021 1:28 PM

MGW: Funny Lawyer Commercials
View | Jun 22, 2021 4:57 PM

You Affect Me (as sung)
View | Jun 21, 2021 11:50 AM

50 Years Ago: The Summer of 1971
View | Jun 21, 2021 7:17 AM

MGW: I’m The Other “Marjorie”
View | Jun 16, 2021 5:02 PM

My Proposed Lesson On White Privilege
View | Jun 15, 2021 6:43 PM

Some Of Us Actually Taught Actual U.S. History
View | Jun 15, 2021 4:31 PM

MGW: Leaving Brooklyn: Fuhgeddaboudit: A quiz
View | Jun 14, 2021 10:21 AM

Poem: I’m Glad, I’m Sad
View | Jun 12, 2021 4:19 PM

Poem: I Had Some Light
View | Jun 12, 2021 4:18 PM

Poem: 4
Jun 12, 2021 4:17 PM

Poem: If Offered a Choice
View | Jun 12, 2021 4:17 PM

Poem: Three Little Words
View | Jun 12, 2021 4:16 PM

Poem: Every Day
View | Jun 12, 2021 8:22 AM

Poem: Holding My Heart
View | Jun 12, 2021 8:22 AM

Poem: Joy
View | Jun 12, 2021 8:22 AM

Poem: Thank You
View | Jun 12, 2021 8:22 AM

Poem: Too Few To Mention
View | Jun 12, 2021 8:21 AM

Poem: Regret
View | Jun 12, 2021 8:21 AM

Poem: My Muse Poem
View | Jun 12, 2021 8:21 AM

Poem: On My Brother’s Death
View | Jun 12, 2021 8:20 AM

Poem: If You Could Read My Mind
View | Jun 12, 2021 8:17 AM

Poem: Love is an Amazement
View | Jun 12, 2021 6:29 AM

Poem: Happiness is wanting what you have
View | Jun 12, 2021 6:22 AM

Paul’s Poetry Corner
View | Jun 11, 2021 2:02 PM

Poem: Perfect? No. Maybe.
View | Jun 11, 2021 2:01 PM

Poem: Not The Woman I Married
View | Jun 11, 2021 1:58 PM

Poem: Not the Man You Married
View | Jun 11, 2021 1:52 PM

Poem: First Kiss
View | Jun 11, 2021 1:49 PM

Poem: Addiction
View | Jun 11, 2021 1:41 PM

Poem: Why Now?
View | Jun 11, 2021 1:37 PM

Poem: Make Me Feel
View | Jun 11, 2021 1:29 PM

Poem: Different Ways of Saying I Love You
View | Jun 11, 2021 1:18 PM

Poem: Happiest Man On Earth
View | Jun 11, 2021 1:13 PM

MGW: Girls Just Want To Have Sun: Summer Slogans
View | Jun 2, 2021 6:30 PM

A Modest Proposal To Restore the Fairness Doctrine
View | May 31, 2021 10:02 AM

A Day in the Life of Paul Schindler
View | May 30, 2021 2:40 PM

Poetry: Thinking Out Loud
View | May 27, 2021 1:16 PM

Kenton Mailman
View | May 21, 2021 5:25 PM

Kristofferson Article
View | May 21, 2021 5:13 PM

MGW: Vaccine Etiquette: Potentially Polarizing Conversations
View | May 19, 2021 5:34 PM

Tee Shirts for Seniors
View | May 16, 2021 7:51 PM

Paul E. Schindler, Jr. Quotes Page
View | May 13, 2021 7:13 PM

MGW: Love Free Stuff? Get vaccinated!
View | May 12, 2021 7:07 PM

Benson Polytechnic School Fight Song
View | May 11, 2021 2:01 PM

Sex and Love
View | May 11, 2021 10:54 AM

MGW: Some People Make Headlines While Others Make History
View | May 9, 2021 7:04 AM

Seagull Screams Cut the Salt-Spray Air
View | May 9, 2021 6:41 AM

CSN House Ad
View | May 8, 2021 5:29 PM

Department of Gratuitous Detail (from next week’s column)
View | May 3, 2021 12:01 PM

MGW: Levite: one who wears jeans religiously
View | Apr 27, 2021 4:14 PM

MGW: Index of appearances in PSACOT
View | Apr 24, 2021 10:56 AM

Byte.com Week In ReView/Audio ReView: The World’s First Podcast
View | Apr 12, 2021 6:54 PM

Goodbye: Barney’s, Brooks Brothers…
View | Apr 10, 2021 12:37 PM

MGW: Is “Vaccine Envy” Real?
View | Apr 4, 2021 4:11 PM

Bursting With Joy Lyrics
View | Mar 23, 2021 6:46 PM

A Wartime Miracle
View | Mar 17, 2021 2:12 PM

MGW: Topics for discussion at the Passover Seder table
View | Mar 16, 2021 1:22 PM

Layperson’s description of Richard Parker’s work
View | Mar 9, 2021 5:01 PM

Richard C. Parker Tribute
View | Mar 3, 2021 2:55 PM

What We Remember Henry Ford For
View | Feb 26, 2021 6:44 AM

MGW: REVISITING “UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE” DURING THE CORONAVIRUS
View | Feb 24, 2021 6:21 PM

Song Parodies
View | Feb 10, 2021 9:18 AM

I Felt The Cat Move Lyrics
View | Feb 10, 2021 9:02 AM

REAL AND FICTIONAL PRESIDENTIAL QUIZ
View | Jan 18, 2021 5:06 PM

Gammie Memoir/Letter
View | Jan 13, 2021 1:57 PM

New West Tribute to Copy Editors
View | Jan 11, 2021 6:12 AM

Intelligence Failures, Then and Now
View | Jan 7, 2021 1:32 PM

“Catching the Fox Unaware”
View | Jan 7, 2021 1:24 PM

Dreading….or dreaming? Do you want to go back to your office?
View | Dec 31, 2020 1:14 PM

The World’s Most Obscure Song Parody
View | Dec 13, 2020 5:20 PM

MGW How To Write For Yiddish Publications
View | Dec 13, 2020 3:33 PM

Chuck and his Ban-Lons
View | Dec 5, 2020 2:29 PM

Retirement — The Art Of Knowing When To Quit
View | Nov 24, 2020 7:52 PM

Perfect? No. Maybe.
View | Nov 20, 2020 1:57 PM

MGW LET’S TALK TURKEY
View | Nov 18, 2020 1:14 PM

MGW Art Linkletter Was Right: “Kids Say The Darnedest Things”
View | Nov 11, 2020 5:20 PM

MGW I’d Like To Be The Next Host Of “Jeopardy”
View | Nov 11, 2020 5:17 PM

Farmers’ Market Blues
View | Nov 8, 2020 4:05 PM

“You’re Ready To Return To Work When… By Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe
View | Oct 23, 2020 8:20 PM

Election Software Project
View | Oct 18, 2020 8:19 PM

When Radio Stations Had City Songs
View | Oct 13, 2020 3:26 PM

Schindler on Journalism
View | Oct 5, 2020 11:41 AM

Journalism: Graphics
View | Oct 5, 2020 11:27 AM

Journalism: Innumeracy: Felony, Misdemeanor or just Malpractice?
View | Oct 5, 2020 10:37 AM

35 Years Before the Mic
View | Oct 3, 2020 1:48 PM

Rae and Kevin’s Wedding Day
View | Oct 1, 2020 1:22 PM

Washington Post Application Essay
View | Sep 30, 2020 11:18 AM

Paul Schindler Love Songs
View | Sep 27, 2020 12:06 PM

Wounded Bird
View | Sep 25, 2020 1:50 PM

Sam Patch: The Greatest Story Ever Told… So Far
View | Sep 24, 2020 6:03 PM

Words of Love
View | Sep 20, 2020 6:39 AM

New Eugene Oregon Show
View | Sep 2, 2020 11:56 AM

New Eugene Oregon Show: The Tech article (image)
View | Sep 2, 2020 10:44 AM

Class
View | Sep 1, 2020 2:56 PM

Adjourning the Connecticut House so I Could See My Girlfriend
View | Aug 8, 2020 11:18 AM

Michael D. McNamee Edwin Diamond Tribute
View | Jul 17, 2020 8:21 AM

Wire Service Days
View | Jul 15, 2020 6:50 PM

Love Songs
View | Jul 15, 2020 4:19 PM

View | Jul 12, 2020 2:17 PM

You Affect Me
View | Jun 23, 2020 7:31 PM

Stories of a Young Journalist
View | Jun 22, 2020 4:51 PM

My UPI Resignation Letter
View | Jun 22, 2020 4:49 PM

Failed Restaurant ReView
View | Jun 22, 2020 4:45 PM

My UPI Application Essay
View | Jun 22, 2020 4:36 PM

Oops! Personal Message Filed On Client Wire
View | Jun 22, 2020 4:33 PM

Early Days at the Associated Press Boston
View | Jun 22, 2020 4:27 PM

Oregon Journal Stories
View | Jun 22, 2020 4:26 PM

Tales of the Cop Shop
View | Jun 22, 2020 4:13 PM

My First Oregon Journal Story
View | Jun 22, 2020 4:10 PM

Holding My Heart Creators
View | Jun 21, 2020 4:48 PM

Holding my Heart
View | Jun 18, 2020 7:04 AM

Sam Patch: How desperate would you have to be?
View | Jun 16, 2020 2:17 PM

Home Libraries or Staged Exhibits
View | Jun 15, 2020 11:23 AM

Stephen Michael Schindler, RIP March 8, 1954-May 21, 2020
View | May 27, 2020 11:19 AM

The Image of the Journalist in Popular Culture: deliberate depictions versus incidental depictions
View | Jun 13, 2019 6:44 PM

RIP: Paul Eugene Schindler and Marium “Mari” Elzora Van Ronk Schindler
View | Aug 27, 2012 5:41 AM

Just Duke It: Week 1
View | Aug 4, 2012 6:13 PM

Mali Journal
View | Mar 13, 2012 6:28 AM

Mali Journal
View | Mar 8, 2012 6:40 PM

POLITICAL BRIEFS EXTRA
View | Feb 25, 2012 5:04 PM

More Dan Grobstein
View | Sep 12, 2011 9:07 AM

More Dan
View | Sep 5, 2011 6:34 AM

Political Briefs Continued
View | Sep 5, 2011 6:32 AM

Dan-o-Rama
View | Mar 21, 2011 6:41 AM

Danorama
View | Dec 10, 2010 6:15 AM

Dan-o-Rama
View | Nov 19, 2010 9:16 PM

More Dan
View | Nov 8, 2010 6:02 AM

Rail Report: Step by Step
View | Oct 10, 2010 3:45 PM

Politics Week of 9/26
View | Sep 26, 2010 5:48 AM

Dan O Rama
View | Sep 26, 2010 5:47 AM

Danaganza!
View | Sep 17, 2010 8:46 AM

NY Times Op-Ed at 40
View | Sep 17, 2010 8:42 AM

Edwin Diamond Tribute
View | Sep 4, 2010 12:31 PM

Greetings from Netroots Nation in Las Vegas
View | Jul 26, 2010 7:33 AM

Everything I Learned About Business I Learned At Sleep Away Camp
View | Jun 26, 2010 8:03 PM

Dan Grobstein Extra!
View | Oct 11, 2009 9:21 PM

Healthcare: Just The Facts, Ma’m
View | Sep 5, 2009 7:24 PM

Torture Briefs, Kennedy Briefs, Healthcare Briefs, Briefs
View | Aug 30, 2009 6:43 PM

Political News: Torture, Health Care, Afghanistan and Misc.
View | Aug 20, 2009 6:04 AM

Politics: National Security, That Pelosi Thing, Religion in American Military Life, Looking Forward Not Backward
View | May 31, 2009 10:02 AM

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Political News Week of May 4
View | May 1, 2009 5:58 AM

Economic News Week of March 30
View | Mar 26, 2009 3:17 PM

“Shemot”–The Names We Use For Others
View | Mar 26, 2009 3:15 PM

Economic News Week of March 2
View | Feb 28, 2009 1:44 PM

The Speech Obama Should Give–I Wish
View | Feb 15, 2009 3:31 PM

Help, I’m Majoring In Detention
View | Sep 4, 2008 9:03 AM

Journalism Movies
View | Aug 24, 2008 8:51 PM

The Racial Gap
View | May 9, 2008 10:47 AM

Paul Schindler on Merv Griffin’s Crosswords
View | Sep 12, 2007 5:28 PM

Merv Griffin’s Crosswords
View | Sep 4, 2007 7:28 PM

Bumps on the road to Nirvana

Check out 42 Years Of Yiddishkeit, her 44^th appearance in this column over 17 years. It starts:

Aaron Lansky, President of the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA, wrote, “In short, after  forty years we’re working harder than ever to preserve the treasures of Yiddish culture and share them with the world.”

     By Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe
Syosset, New York
 Aaron Lansky, President of the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, MA, wrote, “In short, after  forty years we’re working harder than ever to preserve the treasures of Yiddish culture and share them with the world.”

     Shown below is a chronology of fascinating facts, figures, and quotes about Yiddish:

• 2022 There’s a new Jewish-themed offshoot of the word game, “Wordle”–“Jewdle.” Created by Alan Meltzer, it was sold to The New York Times for at least 1 million dollars.
• 2021  The number of people studying Yiddish has increased in the last 8 years.  Online classes at the Workman’s Circle has more than 1,000 students.  The Forward’s own You Tube offers a Yiddish word of the day and has 750,000 viewers.
• 2020  The Oxford Dictionary has added a slew of Jewish themed and Yiddish terms.  They include:  chrain, chutzpadik, farbrengen, farkakta, kibitz, kvetchy, and the phrase “Shiksa Goddess”–a non-Jewish woman regarded as attractive to Jewish men.
  At Michael R. Bloomberg’s campaign event, supporters held up posters which said, “Mishpucha for Mike.”
  New York Magazine published a one-page “Guide to Shvitzing.”
       In San Diego, a license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, spotted a Jewish-inerest license plate:           KPL DOC She guesses that the driver is a pediatric psychiatrist.
• 2019  When Kate McKinnon–from Saturday Night Live–went to see “Fiddler on the Roof” [in Yiddish], Jackie Hoffman, who plays Yente, tweeted:  “The fabulous Kate McKinnon was at our shtetl tonight wearing stilettos, which I’m calling ‘shtetlettos.'”
  The New York Post [Sept. 20] carried this headline:  “ABOUT L’CHAIM, Disney!  First Jewish Princess.”  Hannah Frishberg adds, “Finally a princess with some chuzpah.”
       Lauren Le Vine, “A Beginner’s Guide to American Yiddish (AKA “Yinglsh”), wrote: “In my family, you’re not on pins and needles, you’re on shpilkes.  When you’re down in the dups someone will ask why you’re so ongebluzen (or tell you to stop looking so ongebluzened).  They might tell you to stop “hocking my chainik.”
       Mandi Katz (“Moving Yiddish from my heart to my Mouth”), wrote, “I’m learning Yiddish to address a condition I call ‘mamaloshen envy’ that I first developed 30 years ago but which has become acute in the last 10.”
• 2018  Andrew Silow-Carroll wrote an article titled, “Florida seniors are getting self-driving cars?  Gavalt!”
  Jack Hazen wrote:  “It’s a custom where we come from, when somebody is trying to get pregnant, you make a challah and say a  “brokhe.”
• 2017  Bill Maher ripped Jared Kushner as an “underserving schmuck” who has no business running a major company–let alone the White House.”
  Actor, Harrison Ford, described himself as a “schmuck” after he mistakenly landed his plane on a taxiway at John Wayne Airport in Orange, CA.
       Linda Pressmen (“Honoring My Mom Wth 7 Fabulous Words”), shares the Yiddish words: drek, potchke, goniff, ongeblozen, schlomozel, schpikes, and meshuganah.
       According to allanagrams.com, “Halvahs,” the sweet candy like confection of Turkish origin, consists of ground sesame seeds and honey, is worth 15 points in Scrabble.
• 2016  Frank Cerabino, columnist for The Palm Beach Post, wrote about the Boynton Beach (FL) “alta cockers.”
• 2015  Cindy Adams (NY Post) reports:  NEW TRENDS.  Forgoing platform shoes, ladies are into flats and schlepping their restaurant left- overs home.  Once was “for the dog.”  Now it’s for them.  Only in New York.
  Deena Yellin (The Forward), asks, “But in today’s frantically paced world of fast food and career couples, has the balabusta become as obsolete as the meat grinder or pop-up toaster?”
• 2014  Yiddishists coin the words “helikopter eltern,” meaning “helicopter parents.”
  Jane Horwitz reviewed “Golda’s Balcony”: “actress Tovah Feldshuh holds the theater and stage and her audience in a nearly hypnotic grip.  “Here is no traditional ‘Yiddishe mama’ proffering chicken soup.”
       In this year’s National Spelling Bee contest, a child of Indian immigrants won by correctly spelling the word “knaidel” (matzo ball).   Note: YIVO-style would be spelled “kneydl”).
• 2013  The Long Island Kosher BBQ champion- ship was held in Westbury, New York.  Two of the teams were named “M.O.B.” (Mavens of Barbecue), and “50 Shades of Flayshik.”
  Cindy Adams wrote, “Mama Middleton?  Her copied shmattews are already on sale.  At Banana Republic yet.”
• 2012  Lenore Skenazy (“5 Things To Do Before You’re 13”) wrote, No. 2.  Learn some Yiddish (even curses) or Ladino…
• 2011  Scott Sherman (“BAD For the Jews”), wrote about Joe Lieberman:  “First member of his family to attend college.  Oh, his parents must have been filled with such naches!”
• 2010  Barbra Streisand, at the gala launching of the New American Jewish Museum  in Philadelphia, sang a parody of the song “People.”          “People/I’m here with my people/the most     heymishe people in the world…”

MARJORIE GOTTLIEB WOLFE is the author of two books on Yiddish.

I don’t know how I missed this. According to Wikipedia, “In February 2021, Wolfe Herd became the world's youngest, current, female, self-made billionaire when she took Bumble public. She is the youngest woman to have taken a company public, at age 31.” Sort of the anti-Elizabeth Holmes.

I don’t know if this has happened to you, but periodically I get neat messages on Linked In that disappear before I can copy them or forward them to myself. So, I can’t find the great 100-word bio of her someone sent me. Here is my précis of the bio Time Magazine ran in March 2001.

She founded Bumble, the dating app where women “make the first move,” after co-founding (and naming) Tinder. She left Tinder and won her suit claiming she was driven out by sexual harassment. An amazing and triumphant story, about which you can find more detail in multiple places if you want to dive down that Google hole. Thank God Holmes did not actually screw things up for female entrepreneurs, appearances to the contrary notwithstanding.

From Wordle to Jewdel
Word humor from Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe.
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The Invisible Essential
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
―Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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Pete Davidson Agrees With Me
Regular readers will recall the dead horse of “this movie is too long” that I have been beating for years. SNL’s Pete Davidson agrees with me: Short-Ass Movie
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Two Distant Strangers
Speaking of a short-ass movie; this year’s Oscar-winning short live action film (32 minutes) Two Distant Strangers is an amazing use of the time-loop trope to explain the black lives matter movement.
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Offered A Link
Someone spotted a dead link in my column from 15 years ago. I’m too lazy to fix it, but grateful for the offered replacement: “Our medical team recently wrote a detailed guide on Longevity – 8 Steps To Living A Longer And Healthier Life.”

School Humor
Humor by Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe: Up the Down Staircase 2022.
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The End Of Movies?
I find Russ Douthat’s politics repulsive, but his cultural commentary is typically thoughtful and on the nose: We Aren’t Just Watching the Decline of the Oscars. We’re Watching the End of the Movies
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Passports
We all know “facts” that persist in the popular mind long after they are disproved. “Only 10% of Americans have passports” was one of these. Turns our the actual figure is 40%; still low compared to Canada’s 66 and the U.K.’s 76. No wonder we’re so parochial.

by Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe

Attention: “logophiles”–word lovers. “Wordle,” the new word game byJosh Wardle, has more than 2 million players.  The game was even bought bythe New York Times for at least $1 million.

It’s not for those people labeled as being “lethologica”–the state of not being able to remember the word you want. It’s on “the tip of your tongue.” But if you know that Judge Judy’s favorite word is “kerfuffle” (a fuss or commotion), you’re ready for “Wordle.”

Other new word games:

 “Sedecordle” (which is played with 16 words at the same time.)  “Dordle” (a slightly harder rendition of Wordle. Dordle asks you to solve  for two “Wordies” at once, but with only one guess per turn across both  games.)  “Sweardle” (Uses 4-letter words that have a tendency to be inappropriate.)  “Quordle” (a game four times harder than Wordle. You solve 4 Wordles  at once and have 9 guesses to solve all 4 words)  “Octordle” (Players have to guess eight five-letter words simultaneously  and you only have 13 guesses. Some recent answers: broth, jerky,  druid, belch, and crepe.)

And now there’s a new Jewish-themed offshoot called “Jewdle.” Created by Alon Meltzer, it’s a cute game where all solutions are 6-letter words related to Judaism. Meltzer uses six letters instead of 5 because “five letters was a bit too limiting.” Since so many Yiddish words start with “sch,” many of the answers dropped the “c.”

Are you qualified to play “Jewdle”? Let’s see:

1. Does “EKG” mean “estimated kvetch grade”–a term coined by Lisa  Alcalay Klug (“Cool Jew”)?
2. Does “IBS” mean “Irritable Bowel Syndrome” or “Isaac Bashevis  Singer”?
3. Do you define a “mikveh” as a “Kosher Acquacade”?
4. Do you define a “minyen” as an “Orthodox Stag”?
5. Do you agree with Ellis Weiner (“Yiddish with Dick and Jane”) that the word “Gotenyu” is an appropriate word for someone who says, “She   ordered corned beef on whole wheat? Oy gotenyu!”
6. Do you find these sign humorous?

     LEAVING BROOKLYN: FUHGEDABOUDIT

     LEAVING BROOKLYN: OY VEY!

1. Do you define “minyan shleppers” as “those charged with the duty of  draggIng (shlepping) a quorum of 10 ritually adult males into the    synagogue so that the morning service can begin?
2. Have you used the Yiddishism, “Enough Already! What Am I, Chopped  Liver?” within the last month?
3. Do you agree with Leo Rosten who said that “bagels were doughnuts with a college degree education–and the college is probably Yeshiva”?
4. Are you aware that “charoses is not a liver disease”?
5. Do you define “SBN” as “South Bronx Neshugedacht” (You shouldn’t  know from it!)
6. Do you know that WEVD was a Jewish radio station in NYC and NOT  a brand of Jewish underwear? (Thanks, Albert Vorspan!)

And so, if you’re ready to play “Jewdle,” here’s a short alphabetic list of some possible 6-word answers:

aufruf
bankes
bracha
bulvan
bupkes
dumkop
chaver
freser
gezunt
gevalt
kibitz
kosher
krechz
kvetch
minyan
komike
matzah
mensch
pulkes
schlub
shluff
schlep
shalom
shanda
shaytl
shekel
shivah
shlock
shmate (other spellings include “shmatt
shmeer
shnook
simcha
shtibl
shtikl
tsuris
tzizit
yikhes
zaftig
zamler
Good luck with “Jewdle.”

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MARJORIE GOTTLIEB WOLFE is the athor of two books on Yiddish: “Yiddish for Dog & Cat Lovers” and “Are Yentas, Kibitzers, & Tummlers Weapons of Mass INstruction? Yiddish Trivia.”

Zodiac Chart for Babies
New Yorker Humor
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My Radio History
Looking for something else, ran into my radio history from 13 years ago. Still cute.
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Touch
The Importance Of Touching By Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe.