It was a wonderful gathering, apparently, with all the religions coming together to badmouth the film.
Essayist Richard Rodriguez, author of the book Brown: The last discovery of America, says in an interview that he remembered a blonde woman who would come to the family Christmas gathering with all his Indian relatives.
"The sad thing," he said, "is that with all the gathering of artifacts, there's still not a reliable map that's been done and we know very little about what's going on with the site.
During Eid, we always had a big family gathering, with all my uncles and aunts and their families.
"One of the good things about this is that, having all of that support, we're gathering with all of those groups to talk about ways that we can address this horrible decision".
Picking recent and ongoing campaigns in Nigeria, Russia, Austria, New Zealand, Taiwan and Zimbabwe, they remind that we're watching a Stepford Wives Tupperware gathering by comparison, with all the venom of virtually any congressional hearing ("I thank the gentle lady from Florida.... ..).... ..
But Mr. Ridge will still need to make sure that the fruits of the intelligence-gathering networks are shared with all the disparate agencies assigned to protect Americans from attack.
Perhaps an American museum will undertake a full-scale retrospective, with all the gathering and sorting such a project entails.
Their doings are a matter of pride, with all the important names gathering at some overpriced eatery to toast one another and get their picture taken and advance some initiative that will always, of course, turn out to be good for money and terrible for everyone else.
Until now, though, the company wasn't doing much with all the pricing/popularity data they were gathering.
