ethnic conflict

My friend, the professional editor, said on the phone the other night, "Let me make sure I understand what you're saying. You now hate all German people because you're editing the work of one German who writes awkward English?"

My friend is ethnically Jewish and I'm ethnically German, so I suppose it was quite liberal of him to gently chastise my illiberal rant.

If you'd like to see a dramatization of what our conversations looked like back in college, you can visit this archive I've made of the SNL skit, "The Baby and The German Intellectual."