This lapel button from Sticker Giant.com says it all in a mere one inch. At 99 cents a pop, we’re considering shipping a boatload or two to Buckingham Palace.

Fallen porn king Al Goldstein was so down and out less than a year ago that he turned to Jesus. But Reuters reports that he’s got a new job hawking bagels and white fish to all God’s children:
I’ve always loved food more than sex, so this is really my first love,” said Goldstein, 69, now a cold-calling salesman for New York City Bagels. “I’ve gone from broads to bagels.
The article reveals that the person who helped get Goldstein off the street is none other than magician Penn Jillette and in spite of alienating anyone he’s ever worked with, sired or spoken to, Goldstein just keeps on generating “poor me” press. Although a little digging reveals that he’s still the same lecherous cretin.

A leading rabbi in Beersheba has ruled that Jewish women should not wear anything red, implying that it makes them look like hookers. In response, several female lawmakers in Jerusalem wore red to work in protest.
It’s not up to a rabbi to tell us to whether to wear black or red or any other color,” said Erela Golan, a legislator from the Shinui party who organized the protest. “Just because we wear red doesn’t mean we are prostitutes.
Of course it doesn’t. But easy on the red fishnet stockings until this blows over.
In other news relating to our second favorite color (the first is orange, the preferred color of the insane), it seems the red bendel might be rescued from accessory hell for a fashion comeback…as long as you have the “authentic” version.

So in our typically overzealous urge to get back to nature we reported last Tuesday about the wonderful holiday of Tu B’Shvat, the Jewish New Year for Trees. It’s actually today. We apologize for being so farblondgent, but we believe the trees appreciated the extra love.
(Read the first post for links on how to create your own delicious fruits-of-the-earth feast.)

We saw this truly tasteless ad for the VW Polo last week but didn’t post it ’cause suicide bombers aren’t funny and well, we drive a VW (which is kind of funny.) But here it is; watch it and judge for yourself.
The JPost reports today that not only is the ad a spoof, but that Volkswagon wants to sue its creators, “who claim their ad was only meant to reach a small professional audience.”
In any case, it’s false advertising, since anyone who has ever owned a VW knows they’re crap.

Ilene Springer at Jewz.com says the key to shedding pounds is tied into traditional Jewish values, a subject she explores in her article, The Jewish Diet. Apparently stubborness combined with neurosis equals weight loss- take that, Dr. Atkins!

Can you imagine going shopping for a nice set of flannel sheets and turning up with these instead? A son of Holocaust survivors found two sets of sheets patterned with WWII “Jude” stars for sale at a Petaluma, CA Grocery Outlet last week, the same offensive symbol his parents were forced to wear sixty years ago. j. weekly reports that “the stars were made with dotted lines, as if to be cut out and sewn onto clothing” (insert heebie jeebies here.) No one seems to know where the fabric came from or how they could have made it to shelves without a single employee wondering “gee, aren’t these, like, really offensive?”
Ironically, the brand name, Nature at Home, is owned by Sam Salem and Sons out of Manhattan, a manufacturing firm comprised of mostly Jewish and Israeli workers. They’re mystified and embarrassed that star sheets have been traced back to their company.

Belle de Jour, a purported London call girl of Jewish origins who loves to show off her literary prowess while recounting her trashy trysts, has signed a deal with Britain’s Channel 4. This follows on the heels of her six-figure book contract (Belle de Jour: The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl will be released sometime this year) so perhaps Ms. Trollop can stop shtupping for money now.
There are some who believe Belle (who has remained anonymous) and her tales are just a load of bullsh*t and that the popular blog is just a fictional fantasy created by some sex-starved journalist. We promise it’s not us, Mom.

A drumroll please for Gunnery Sergeant Kenneth Wolin and Staff Sergeant Jonathan D. Bisesi, two Jewish Marines who play percussion for the United States Marine Band. The pair played front-and-center at George W. Bush’s inagural festivites yesterday, including the swearing-in, the parade and the multitude of parties. In an interview with The Washington Jewish Week, the two recount their Jewish histories and musical backgrounds, but do not address that their gig in “The President’s Own” band gives them all the perks of military enlistment and none of the bummers. Beating a drum beats being in Iraq; these are some smart boys!
c/o Jews In Green.

A drawing by schoolboy Petr Ginz, killed in Aushwitz in 1944, will be featured on a new stamp to be unveiled in Prague on Thursday, reports BBC News. The pencil sketch depicts mountains on the moon with the earth shining in the distance and is part of Yad Vashem‘s permanent art collection in Jerusalem. That it was drawn 25 years before such an image was confirmed by astronauts makes us wonder sadly what else Ginz might have accomplished. May his vision of of one planet inspire us to keep peace in mind.