All that "voice of a generation thing" might be part of the reason she gets held to a higher standard, even if she didn't describe herself that way.

Woodrow Wilson wants some consideration in this contest as well.

I remember watching the Berlin Wall fall, the Ceaușescu regime collapse, the first Gulf War and the siege of Sarajevo pratically unfolding live on CNN. But that was because they had knowledgable correspondents posted in the regions to jump on the stories as they happened. Now? It's just talking head punditry, with…

How many people outside of hardcore comic fans would have really known the character was originally Asian anyway?

I've seen a few Bollywood films where the hero, played by native born Indian, looks more white and blue-eyed than half of Hollywood.

If you knew any Shapiros, supposedly that derrives from the name of the city of Speyer, known in the Middle Ages for both it's wine and large Jewish population.

Remember, though, the Boomers coming of age coincided with the mass adoptation of TV.

There actually is something to it. It follows the demographics of the Baby Boom generation, when there were simply a lot more celebrities to go around. Now that the Baby Boomers have started their gradual die-off, we're going to see a lot more of this.

Ah, thanks. So, once the salt is used for the intended purpose, it's anything but kosher.

From what I understand, New Yorkers usually have one team they prefer, but because they really don't directly compete against each other, they're not disdainful of the other. I don't get why Chicago fans seem to be so divided over their two baseball teams. Spread your bets, I say!

Plus, what percentage of the English speaking population of the world would have really known or cared about this character's gender or ethnicity in the original comic book? Less than 1%, I bet. I mean, it's not like they made a movie called 'The Diary of Andy Frank", where the protagonist is an evangelical…

I'm not asking if they were vintners or wine traders (an unimportant distinction), I'm asking if wine in general was their main economic activity. More a matter of cultural and economic history than a religious issue, particularly because I used to live in that exact part of the world.

I've wondered how salt could be kosher or unkosher.

I kind of recall reading somewhere that the major economic activity of the Ashkenazi culture when it originally developed in the Rhineland was either winemaking or wine trading. Am I correct, or is this one of those weird things I made up in my head?

I think I only read Levitcus and Numbers once, but I don't recall wine being mentioned (I do, however, recall, all those instructions for sacrificing animals and how to build the ark of the covenant). Were the instructions for kosher wine in those books, or does this come from later Jewish writings that we Christians…

Ice wine, maybe? I'm not sure if it's boiled or distilled off. But it's extremely sweet.

My grandparents didn't exclusively drink Manischewitz (they were more "box wine enthusiasts"), but I always wondered about those bottles of Manischewitz that they seemed to pull out every once and a while. I guess they weren't the only Catholics who took a liking to it.

To be fair, communion wafers aren't supposed to provide regular sustenance.

Did anyone else look at that picture from the Star Trek movie and think "I could sure go for a zebra cake right about now."?

This lifetime Republican who did not vote for Trump and is horrified by the thought of him as president agrees.