New Yorker Quips Greeks Invented Tragedy, Not Much Else Lately
I’m getting sick of the way everyone’s always ragging on Greece. I just read this comment in “Greece Vs. The Rest” in The New Yorker: Greeks are fond of pointing out that they invented democracy;...
View ArticleGreece Leading the Pack
So many people I talk to seems to have this idea, driven by the media and not personal experience, that Greeks are lazy and aren’t doing anything innovative. This is simply not true. Greeks were...
View ArticleCorrecting My Joisey Accent
image via Harvard Dialect Study “You’re from Joisey!” all the West Coasters would exclaim when I moved out to Los Angeles for college and told them I had come from New Jersey. That’s what I said, “New...
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