Last year, I attended my sister’s wedding. It was an extravagant event, with the ceremony in an ancient Basque church and a reception at a country estate deep in the French countryside. Since Frederic

“What’s so funny about that?” That’s a question I ask myself and my roommate as she is chuckling to yet another insipid sitcom on CBS. She is watching “Everybody Loves Raymond” – a show as brain deadening