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...increasingly spreading its Jewish joy to the world. Last month, thinking woman's heartthrob Jon Stewart appeared on Stephen Colbert's Christmas TV special and meekly sang the tune, Can I Interest You in Hanukkah? Whether the answer from most viewers was yes or no, at least Kyle can tell his South Park buddies it's getting a little less lonely to be a Jew on Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Culture Hanukkah | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...season, singing "A Jew on Christmas." "I'm a Jew, a lonely Jew, I'd be merry, but I'm Hebrew, on Christmas... Hanukkah is nice but why is it that Santa passes over my house every year? And ... what the f--- is up with lighting all these candles tell me please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Culture Hanukkah | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...Texas raked in $363 million in oil-production taxes in just the last quarter of fiscal 2008, 36% more than the same quarter a year ago, and $777 million in gas-production taxes, up 55% over the same quarter a year ago. But the numbers are now beginning to tell a different tale. While natural-gas-production taxes are up 56% for the first quarter of fiscal 2009, oil-production taxes have slipped from the 72% increase seen in fiscal 2008 to a 36% increase in the first quarter, according to the Texas state comptroller. (The state levies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas Braces for an Oil Bust | 12/19/2008 | See Source »

...conversation with Obama. Says Armitage, "He's appropriately confident. He realizes the size of the bus that he's caught." And what do these right-of-center figures expect Obama is going ask of them eventually? "I don't know," says Armitage, "It's too early to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind Obama's Rightward Outreach? | 12/19/2008 | See Source »

Although he missed Bush, Zeidi hit the sweet spot in the last news cycle: media outlets everywhere were looking for something fresh to show and tell their consumers. The Barack Obama salvation show was in hiatus, the Mumbai terror attacks was fading from the front page, the Mideast peace process was stalling (again), the late night comics had run out of jokes about Gov. Rod Blagojevich's hair... and everybody had had quite enough of grim tidings about the economy. For newsrooms, a man throwing shoes at a lame duck American President was like Christmas come early. (See "Aftermath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shoe Thrower Only a Temporary Distraction | 12/18/2008 | See Source »

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