<![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @dressyslacks_cutetop:

or David Zinczenko.

lizzybennet

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Ok, it's settled. I won't touch a woman, but I may just go ahead and ruin his good looks if I see him on the street. I hate dudes with annoying wifes.

zibby

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> man, she's going to be really sad when he leaves her for rose macgowan

dressyslacks_cutetop

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @moosette: That's nothing: I went to a Chabon panel at Comic-Con a few years back where you couldn't hear a word because there was a baby howling over him and another couple of kids running around the back of the (small, packed) room -- of course, Ayelet was sitting smack in the middle of the unruly brood, staring rapt and doe-eyed at her husband, and no one had the balls to ask her to get the kids to shut the fuck up or, you know, step outside.

Ugh.

GingerVitis

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> You know what works to destroy the deluded notion of a Christmas with a fat man in red giving out toys to good little goys? An Irish Catholic dad who shoves you and your sister off to midnight mass, gets wasted at the Pine Cove Inn, picks you up at 1:15, makes you drive (even though you're only thirteen) because he's too drunk to), takes you home (where Mom is passed out in bed), screams at you to decorate the tree (which no one has done cause no one's been in the mood) then drags Mom from the bed and beats her up in the hall.
You don't have to be Jewish to feel disillusioned, isolated and miserable at Christmas.

lizzybennet

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Mommys don't talk about sex - we complain alot -lack of sleep, kids driving us nuts, laundry, etc. We also eye suspiciously the creepy, pigtailed-wearing childlike, married to paycheck and/or fame, pain in the ass, usually eating disordered wives. Also, way to teach your kids to be respectful of someone else's belief system. I know my Catholic friends like it when I call them delusional and gullible. Oy.

paperclipwife

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> The picture sort of says it all. Her, clinging to him like a baby. Him, laughing uncomfortably with his arms in position to Judo-throw her into the bushes and then wave his finger in circles next to his head and say: "what wife?"

vulturesquadron

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> The kids are going to love this stuff when they grow up. Also, I am going to love re-reading this stuff when the inevitable divorce is finalised.

whokilledallthemandelas

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Two wrongs don't make a right.

gingirl

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Her need to repeatedly quantify that she loves her husband more than she loves her children, that he too, loves her more than he loves their children is nauseating ... desperate one-up-manship over a hapless brood of innocents that (and this is where AW may be onto something)are NEVER likely to provide validation to her co-dependent neediness, which for whatever entangled reasons of his own, her husband does.
And I too have attended many mommy groups that both my son and I totally enjoyed but, no, the conversations did not turn to sex. I can't remember even one instance. So my suspicion is that sex ALWAYS becomes the topic in AW's groups because she in fact initiates the discussion. (Or perhaps we Canadian women are relatively more circumpect/ discreet ... or maybe, as AW puts it ... we're all sweet but gullible!)

ThereMustBeAPony

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Give the poor lady a break. She cried when they fired Joe Torre.

KarenUhOh

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @LolCait:
What, they don't have Cinnabons in Kirkuk? Those poor bastards.

krazykarot

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> a) I'd have thought in NYC more than anywhere people would realize Christmas is a commercial holiday first, and a religious one second.

b) Ayelet is taking her beard duties way too seriously.

surfacenoise76

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @ohnothimagain: Nah. I just flew in from Chicago, and frankly, my arms were too tired.

Furious George

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Wait, I just realized Judith Butler, the Judith Butler, wouldn't be that stupid. So it must be a disgruntled Berkeley grad student posing as Judith Butler... which is SERIOUSLY COOL!

EnviousJuno

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @lucio: And if she is, she can claim Chabon's gay just 'cause he writes a good homoerotic scene and not get fired from an academic post because she's JUDITH BUTLER and she has TENURE.

The whore thing is personal, though.

EnviousJuno

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @judithbutler: something about your Berkeley-related posts tells me you are really Judith Butler.

TheLorax

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> My family: Sweet and gullible (not)
Her family: Schizotypal and narcissitic

chicklit

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> I got you some sweet-but-gullible right here, Ayelet.

And I can't wait until your kids grow up and start writing the tell-alls.

GraspsAtStraws

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @judithbutler: Genius funny.

Dusty in the Wind

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Wait a minute... the Times Style piece...

That was serious?

Holy shit.

Dusty in the Wind

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Because I am a kind, generous, and charitable soul, I will refrain from telling any of the Chabon-Waldman spawn that Jews didn't give a rat's ass about Hanukkah until they dragged it out kicking and screaming from the Christian Apocrypha in the 19th century to find a respectable holiday that would work nicely with Zionism. You know, reclaiming the Temple and all that shit.

And oh yes. You betcha the oil most definitely lasted eight days, yes siree!

Waldman is a shanda fir die yiddn.

march_of_folly

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Amen to EVERYTHANG posted thus far. Guess what???I ACTUALLY MET THE BEEYATCH at an NYC literary event. If Ayelet in print or photograph is insufferable, then NOTHING can prepare one for the experience of meeting her in the flesh. She is a rude, skanky, self-satisfied, self-promoting aging girly-girl whose scorn for anyone who is not Ayelet Waldman or Michael Chabon is boundless. Plus, she is fond of craning her neck around whilst talking to you in order to check out which OTHER, MORE FAMOUS WRITER she might be talking to. Brrrr!!! The memory induces shudders.

moosette

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Ayelet Waldman is the kind of woman my mom looks at and says, "see? anyone can get married." And yes. Anyone can. I admit the only reason this even interests me is that she looks like a crazy little squashed-up gremlin troll while Michael Chabon is genuinely writer-hot.

cassandra

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Wow. This shitstain just made Amy Sohn seem halfway tolerable.

zibby

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> That coat looks like she stole a robe from some old lady in a nursing home (a houserobe the poor old woman had since 1964). Then again, with that hair and her white slippers and that hysterical look in her eye -- Ayelet looks like she may be a resident of some sort of mental health care facility.

SheWalkedWithAZombie

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> She looks like an extra on BH90210 from '93. Actually, they both do.

richardmarxhatesmyhair

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Wow. Now this speech by the main character in "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" can be read in a whole new light:

"I don't care what was written. I don't care what was supposedly promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag. ... Fuck you. And fuck Jesus too, he was a pussy."

Mr. B.

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @de wolfe: You nailed it. She looks like she doesn't want to be a grown-up.

hhpeterson13

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @de wolfe: AHA! she's destroying the competition!

suzyO

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @samiamiamsam: i disagree.

on a side note, i have to say that i took perverse pleasure in spoiling Santa for the other kids after my mom succumbed to my questioning and broke the news to me while browsing in the mitten department at ShopKo.

misspie

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Would it be wrong to hope he leaves her someday? Yes, I guess it would.

samiamiamsam

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> As one of the aforementioned "sweet but gullible" semi-Christians, I'd like to give her an early Christmas present. It consists of a kick in the box.

PimpMyCouch

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> the combo of childish hair, childish coat and her squealy pose make her look disturbingly like--well, one of the daughters she allegedly had such fun making with him? anyone? white courtesy phone for the "lady" in the pink coat?

de wolfe

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @picardia: No, I don't remember ever really believing in Santa either. I do remember sort of playing along, though. Which is something I still do with lots of grown-up ideas. Since I don't believe in much. Like democracy, or God, or the possibility of world peace... But I play along. Because it's more fun that way!

... and this woman? I would like to think that she writes the way she does, about the things she does, because she is incredibly sad. And that she and Michael's foreplay involves telling each other how amazing they are because they both know in their hearts that they are not amazing at all. And that she has to teach her children to honor their family's delusions over the delusions of others because she knows that they are delusions, and that the only thing that keeps delusions afloat is blunt, blind faith. I would like to think that. I don't think I do, though.

hageesheart

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> WTF? Who in the hell discusses their sex lives at these baby/toddler-based get togethers? I presume it's her since she proclaims to be the only one getting it. I want to let you in on a little secret...please stop having babies or at least use birth control since children are not trophies. And fix that fuggly hair. I will, however, knock you over for that pink coat.

whatahoot

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @skeletonhead: Children have no idea what a stocking full of coal looks like anymore. Tell them Santa will bring them socks and underwear if they misbehave and they'll be good as gold.

PandoraSpocks

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Bitch is crazy but I LOVE that coat!

LilyBonesBurana

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @Sally Tomato: Only if you then serve them to her children, cleverly disguised as a smoothie.

mindbling

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Furious George is busy today honing the stand-up routine.

ohnothimagain

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> I have the impression this woman is the type of mother who, although she'd be "destroyed" by the pain of losing a child, if her little one suffered sexual trauma or wound up in a wheelchair, Waldman's patience and sympathy and love would only last the child's first month of therapy. Afterwards it's, "honey, can't you move past this already?"

The she'd cash in with a memoir, detailing how awful it all was.

nycheartbreaker

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> And for Purim every year she teaches Sophie the tricks of the trade of sacred prostitutes, telling her about how Xerxes dumped his queen because she wasn't slutty enough so he had a contest and slept with a thousand concubines. After her year-long training in the harem it was Esther's turn to sleep with the king. She was the concubine who provided the most vital, torrid sex so she got to be Xerxes' queen.

SheWalkedWithAZombie

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> As always, I feel sorry for her children.

darina

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @Sally Tomato: Only if you hide some sweet potatoes in there. For the gullible, limited children.

ambitious

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Nothing like teaching your kids to sneer at the goyim.

This is why people root for the Palestinians.

Clevertrousers

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Yes, AYE have four children. Four children with whom AYE spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair, sitting with them while they do their homework, holding them while they weep their tragic tears. But AYE'm not in love with any of them. AYE am in love with my [husband] self. AYE absolutely depise those fucking assholes, er, the children. AYE shudder when AYE have to get near them. Gotta run, AYE'm off to force my husband to fuck me.

suzyO

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> I think the suicide statistics just went up a notch or two in the Waldman - Chabon household this holiday season.

brokenface

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @sheistolerable:

I tried! Because he finds it so exhausting to maintain his website while simultanteously living with the Most Annoying Woman in America, Chabon has stopped updating it with his magazine columns, and I don't think Details has an online archive.

City_Dater

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @pinch_vintage: That extra "s" in Nietzsche always gets me. It's made me the laughingstock of my last several Aryan Brotherhood rallies. :(

Another tip: it's "Gerbles," not "Gobels." Thank me later!

Furious George

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Waldman is the liberal, bottle-redhead version of Ann Coulter: delusional, annoying, untalented, and deranged.

24-7

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> ...but if she's lucky, maybe someday she'll catch a fleeting glimpse of the prophet staggering around looking for the keys to his chariot.

theodicey

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> "Twice a week I make my children watch me and Michael having sex. I do not want them getting their ideas about the Act from television. As a mother, I can foster my childrens' self-esteem by encouraging them to develop tiger-like bedroom skills.
The other mothers in Mommy and Me have told me that being a torrid lover is necessary for your self-esteem, especially when the time comes for your husband to leave you for a woman who doesn't look like a Christmas Elf."

far-far

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @grandmoffbastard: Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel have yet to see a dime from that book!

Goodbye, Commenters!

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Santa wants to know why the lump of coal he gives here every year has not turned into a diamond. Is she using the right hole? I believe the back one is much tighter. But if she uses the front or the mouth, there won't be any restriction at all. Those holes are like jell; no set dimensions.

iambillgates

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @CodePink: At least you can spell his name!

But yes, it does warm my heart when Nietzsche and Christmas become intertwined, makes me feel 4 years old again.

pinch_vintage

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Sadly, little Sophie will never know the magic of running to open the door for Elijah, only to return to a freshly emptied glass.

theodicey

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> children, your christian friends are sweet, but dumb. kinda like labrador retrievers.

suzyO

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> "Gullible, Limitations, delusions". She's talking about children, but sounds like an unwitting self-portrait. Wotta creep. Ugh.

Hubby ain't that spank-worthy either. Hugely overrated.

Arundel

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @Furious_George: It's pronounced I-Yell-It. Which is very appropriate for someone as obnoxiously loud as Waldman.

midtown43

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> She's vile.

Curse_of_NursePornstein

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> I heard Santa gave Ayelet a stocking full of coal last christmas and by twelfth night she had a new tennis bracelet! But maybe I'm just gullible...

skeletonhead

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @Cesare_the_Somnambulist: Thank you. :)

Now, can someone please tell me if it's supposed to be pronounced "Ayel-ett" or "Ayel-ay?"

My years of high school French have conditioned me to pronounce it "Ayelay" whenever I read her name. But my spotty knowledge of Hebrew nomenclature tells me that it's more likely pronounced "Ayelett."

Help a brotha out.

Furious George

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @Furious_George: where do i email commies to? lolcait@yahoo.com?

IndianSlipper

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> The truth is they can't afford to pay their mortgage and make the car payments, so they get out of buying the little crumb snatchers Christmas gifts by telling them Santa is a fraud. Heartless assholes.

IndianSlipper

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @Sally Tomato: Great idea! The Seinfeld and Chabon children are going to be in rehab or jail before they turn 18 anyway, so who cares if they believe in Santa?

midtown43

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @pinch_vintage:
To be honest, we did not have a Nietzche tree. And I believed in Santa until I was like eleven. So now I tell lies like my parents told me lies. But I still like presents.

CodePink

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @CodePink: Must be exhausting.

fiveinchtaint

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @LolCait:
That's the way to do it, though, all truth, all the time.

CodePink

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Can we put Ayelet and Jessica Seinfeld in a blender and just call it a day? Yuck.

Sally Tomato

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Exclusion is the new inclusion.

GeorgeBabbitt

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Let's see: Ayelet Waldman is loud and crass, has made a career out of exploiting her children in public ("my daughter was ugly when she was born," "if my four children died I'd be OK," "my eight-year-old son think he's gay"), has about as much talent as a rock, dresses like she's married to a truck driver, wears pigtails that would look ridiculous in a woman half her age, and is a patronizing bitch… Way to go, Michael.

midtown43

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @CodePink: I did not have a Neitzche tree, but I just never believed in Santa Claus. I told this to a Santa at my mother's office (her boss) and he continued to refer to me throughout the night as that girl under the table reading her Nietzshe. Which would have made me cool, but I was more into Colorforms.

pinch_vintage

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Oh, man. That just reeks of Christmas-envy. You're not fooling anyone Ayelet.

newyorkese

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @CodePink: I remember one year on Mother's Day my mom actually gave me and my sister a card.

It said "I'm a man wearing a wig. This is not your home."

LolCait

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Am I the only person who never believed in Santa as a kid? My parents tried to convince me, but seriously, even at age 3, I knew that story did not hold up. I kept my big mouth shut, though, not out of respect for anyone's delusions but due to the sure instinct that playing along with this farce = more toys.

picardia

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @CodePink: I keep telling my fiancée we're serving our kids hassenpfeffer on Easter. And little tiny chicken wings.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @CodePink: Me too. Then three days later we sent the ones that said "Just kidding!"

layladylan

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @Furious_George: My favorite comment ever!

Goodbye, Commenters!

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @grandmoffbastard:
We also sent out Easter cards that said "God Is Dead."

CodePink

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> I think Ayelet has done a fabulous job of priming her kids to be Best Pretentious Pals with Elijah Pollock. Oy vey.

hhpeterson13

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @CodePink: That sounds super, man.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Wow, how totally fresh--raising non-Santa kids in a Santa culture. Check back articles of Ladies' Home Journal for possible cribs . . .

Spiked hot cocoa to anyone who finds the Chabon Details article online, btw.

sheistolerable

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Is my family the only one who had a Nietzsche tree? You know what we decorated it with?--nothing.

CodePink

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> I think we should respect Ayelet's delusion that she has some literary talent and didn't get published just because she "lives with her husband, the novelist Michael Chabon," as she likes to point out wherever she goes.

24-7

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @layladylan: "But I can imagine no joy without my husband."

I mean, Kavalier & Clay was pretty good, but c'mon.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Out of respect for my limited abilities, please do not do any of the following:
1. speak
2. reproduce, anymore at least
3. rob anymore oxygen from us
4. be seen in public

Fee free to:
1. crawl under a rock
2. stop breathing
3. hook up with JFP
4. pay taxes

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> I'm sick of these rich, clannish, anti-American people with their weird rituals and too much power, who think they're better than everyone else.

Y'know, writers.

TedSez

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> I (unfortunately) read the article that Emily linked to and it was all about how Ayelet (shudder) pities other moms because they have no life outside of their children. She is better than they are, because she has no life outside of her husband. Wow, she is so healthy!

layladylan

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> what an underminer.

clandestino

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> what a self-absorbed little twatsicle.

SharonTaint

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Aylet has to say that, 'vital, even torrid,' how else would you describe a husband who comes home, his boxers dripping with a slurry of another man's goo and his own poo? She's a beard and a whore.

JudithButler

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> I want to smack her for her hair alone, let alone anything else.

IHateWhatYouHaveOn

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> The kind of culture I have made with myself has declared my kind of culture's version of a culture war on the kind of culture they have made together.

ADismalScience

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> "They believe in Santa because they're all mildly retarded, sweetie. And it isn't nice to laugh at retards, now, is it?"

MisterHippity

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> @SarahHeartburn: good one

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Although Cindy-Lou Who does exist though, too bad she's such a thoughtless bitch

BalknChain

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> And I hope she reminds then daily that they're going to die someday.

SarahHeartburn

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> I nominate Ayelet Waldman for Douche du Jour.

cocoesq

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Ayelet? More like Ayeletdown!

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> I want to punch her in the face. Redundant, I know, but it had to be said.

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> In the culture I come from, we would replace "sweet but gullible" with "getting to enjoy their goddamn childhood."

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Funny, I taught my children that her family, though not very sweet and overly cynical, should not be the only kids to be abused on the playground. Lesson hasn't seemed to stick though.

Chief Wahoo

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Oh, and like the Jews are a bunch of skeptics. Manna from heaven? Red Sea parting because some old coot with a staff told it to do so? Methuselah living 900-plus years?

Hebrew, please!

Sarcastro

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> I hear that he's given her five orgasms, one of them huge!

BinkysDream

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Did anyone else see this thing Chabon wrote for Details or some other such boy magazine a couple months ago, about how he is a hermit with few friends who is capable of being bullied into interpersonal relations?
It explained this marriage, and made me hugely depressed, all in less than 1,000 words.

City_Dater

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> "Then, in March or April, I shoot a rabbit just to show that kids that it bleeds, and is not carrying chocolate. For the Fourth of July last year I dropped them out of a helicopter into the middle of Kirkuk and had them find their own way home. Then we ate cinnamon buns."

LolCait

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Oh good, she's teaching her kids how to be condescending asshats, "out of respect for [others'] limitations." That will so not get them beat up when they get older.

layladylan

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> I kind of respect the mom honesty. I hope to be an insane and brutally honest mommy someday, torrid sex included.

mcginstein

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Willy Wonka is...what the...so, you're saying...oh...my...God...wait, what??!

Excuse me for a minute.

...

bang

Furious George

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> True story: My best friend told his kids about Christmas's roots in Saturnalia and all the drunken gay sex involved. Needless to say, they are the coolest kids I know.

ElijahPollack

]]> <![CDATA[How Ayelet Waldman Stole Christmas]]> Saying: "Inclusion in any culture other than the one we were making together no longer mattered to me" is grounds for a rally outside of your dorm room on most campuses.

TheHonJudgeSmails

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