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What is it about the popularity lately of singing through one’s nose? This one is the absolute winner, but it seems to be the “in” thing now.

I was at a bar here in Poland with a friend sometime when that atrocious Anastacia song “Paid My Dues” came on the radio. “Read all the lyrics, sorry though they may be

As Anastacia sang, my friend got that lost-in-the-moment look, then asked me, “What is this song about?”

“I don’t really know,” I replied. “I’ve never really paid much attention to it.”

“But I don’t get it. ‘Paint my juice?’ What is that supposed to mean?”

Is nothing sacred?

In Poland, separation of church and state doesn’t exist, and priests teach religion courses in publicly funded schools.

Today I caught a student writing cheat notes on his arm for a quiz he was having in religion class!

“You realize that when you take a test and you cheat, it’s the same as lying, right?” I asked him.

“How so?”

“Well, when you take a test, aren’t you implicitly saying that you’re taking the information only from your own knowledge?” I asked.

“I guess,” he muttered.

“Then cheating is a form of lying,” I concluded.

A thoughtful moment. “So?”

So, indeed.