KILLER funny Mad TV skit and people I admire ...

Yes. I'll get to the serious matter of the Muslim family. Just have to note one more great Mad TV skit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZkdcYlOn5M&NR=1

I'll also note, in honor of the new year, two people I admire. Each of their bios I lifted from the page associated with the link above their names ...

http://www.timeinc.net/fortune/information/presscenter/fortune/bios/FOR_Leonard.html

Devin Leonard
Senior Writer
FORTUNE

Leonard is a senior writer at FORTUNE covering general business topics, with a focus on entertainment and media. He joined FORTUNE in January 2000 as a writer. Since then, Leonard has profiled such important business figures as Edgar Bronfman Jr., Conrad Black, Sumner Redstone, Jean-Marie Messier, Bob Wright, Mort Zuckerman, Mark Cuban and South Park's Matt Stone and Trey Parker. He wrote the exclusive story about the launch of Apple's iTunes store. Leonard's 2002 investigative piece The Adelphia Story about the Rigas family of Adelphia Cable Systems was included in The Best Business Crime Writing of 2002. Prior to working at FORTUNE, Leonard was a staff writer for The New York Observer covering real estate and politics. Before that he worked for SmartMoney, The Record of Hackensack, The Columbia Daily Tribune, and The Kennebec Journal. Leonard earned a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. He has appeared on CNBC, CNN and NPR and has written freelance articles for The New York Times, Philadelphia magazine and the Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine.

(His wife Eileen Leonard is also awesome.)

http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ergsll/italian/faculty.html

Lynn Westwater
Assistant Professor of Italian
Director of Italian
George Washington University

Professor Westwater received her B.A. in Italian and English from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Italian Literature from the University of Chicago. She joined the George Washington faculty in 2006. Her research interests include polemical writing in Early Modern Italy; Early Modern women's writing; convent writing; Venetian culture; the Italian Jewish experience; plagiary in Early Modern Italy; and cultural production in Italian border regions. She is preparing a book manuscript on the often fraught relations between male and female writers in seventeenth-century Venice. She recently co-edited a critical edition, in Italian, of seventeenth-century Venetian nun Arcangela Tarabotti's correspondence (Lettere familiari e di complimento, Rosenberg & Sellier, 2005), which she is also co-editing and translating for the University of Chicago Press's Other Voice in Early Modern Europe series.