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  • ABUSE WRITERS?

    Who would of thunk it? My Freedom of Speech taken away by MSN. i could laugh...
    Posted to The Spectator by RCH in TN on August 22, 2008

  • The Race to the Bottom

    Great article. If you are helping the race to the bottom. Yes, continue to cheer on a system that rewards and embraces idiocy. You want idiots? Go work for GM. Political commentary deserves far better than this analysis that is so backward and implies far more than it says. Humor, like writing, is an acquired skill, and not everyone has it. Al ...
    Posted to Readme by irsslex on July 8, 2008

  • George Carlin as Well

    I understand you were trying to give your unabashed opinion of the man, but I feel you haven't really watched much of him....because you horribly trivialized Carlin's greatness. To say that he was dated??!! Dated??!! I think he was the most topical, honest voice there was in the media..to date. I don't know what clips you guys have been ...
    Posted to Culture Gabfest by Donadio.j on July 2, 2008

  • Catchphrases in Hell

    Mr Rosenbaum, you either don't read Matt Groening's Life In Hell or perhaps had a senior moment, but a few times a year, Mr Groening gathers up the latest trendy words and catchphrases that have been overused, publishes them in his comic with the retainer that they have outlived their usefulness and should be retired. Another fellow who's been ...
    Posted to The Spectator by lastangelman on June 28, 2008

  • Death of the semicolon?

    How can I care about a piece of punctuation THAT CAN BE BOTH pusillanimous pugnacious when one of the greatest observer and commenters about how we use the English language finally had one heart attack, too many? George Carlin, APPARENTLY NOW posthumous receiver of Mark Twain award, dead at 71 ... SSSHHHH-I-I-I-I-T-T-T!
    Posted to Culturebox by lastangelman on June 23, 2008

  • The joke's on us

    The courts always have trouble with humor. They're serious places filled with serious people in serious clothes doing serious things. Judges demand - and expect -respect, and don't tolerate jokes. Even when they talk about humor, they fall back on Important Satirists like Jonathan Swift, and don't discuss the equally subversive, but much funnier, ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by randy-khan on June 26, 2007