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There was one thing I wanted to do last month in Berlin after I was done with all the smoking, drinking and glamrocking: buy wooden toys.
Unfortunately, they don’t come cheap. If you look closely at the picture, taken at a Berlin toy store, you can see the €19.99 price tag. That’s almost $30 for [...]

Quite by accident, we found ourselves at the Aventura Mall yesterday just north of Miami. Wedged between the yacht-ridden Intracoastal Waterway and the Turnberry Isle Resort and Golf Club, it is a vast citadel of shopping, a gilded pimple on the ass of debt-laden America. Exactly the kind of mall experience we were glad to [...]

Since Nathan (Jewish, but not to Lubavitchers) and Christopher (not a Jew, but frequently mistaken for one) have weighed in on this topic, I figured I’d throw in my two shekels. So:
As a Jew (even the black hats have to admit it), I’m completely opposed to any celebration of Christmas. No tree, no Santa Claus, [...]

Baby’s first Christmas is coming! Yay!
Except… he’s too young to know it. So we’ll be joining in a silly tradition: picking out presents for him that are just things we’d buy anyway. Believe me, I’m not grousing about gifts–in fact, Christmas seems more meaningful this year, with a new baby in the house, than it [...]