Saw a crazy thing at the newsstand today. Every morning, I go there, I get a cup of black coffee and a bagel with a shmear. Today, I’m taking a sip of my coffee and I see the cover of Maxim magazine. Headline: Women of the Israeli Defense Forces. My first reaction was disgust — natural reflex, anyone would have had the same. But then I got to flipping through that mag and I gotta tell ya, I don’t care if these pictures were of Jews, Blacks, or even Jewish Blacks (Is that a protype that exists?), these ladies had it going on. So I got on the horn and I called up my father, big reader, loves all periodicals. I said, “Pop, they got Jewish girls posing in Maxim magazine.”

But good ole pop, he sees Maxim as “Hollywood” crap and sees Hollywood crap as “Jew Propaganda”. Of course he refuses to acknowledge the existence of a Jewish state, so a photo spread from a Jewish state couldn’t possibly exist. I tried explaining to dad that the magazine does exist because I was holding it, but that’s like trying to convince Danny Glover to shoot a scene in his skivvies (a fight I ended up winning — See Lethal Weapon 4 — Seriously, please see it, I got a piece of the backend). Seriously though, my funny round hat goes off to the fine trailblazers at Maxim magazine.