Why should anyone listen? I listen because he’s smart and funny as hell. He helps me think. There aren’t many people writing that I’d put up there with him. (There’s a columnist over at The Guardian, Marina Hyde, who’s got a beautifully vicious satirical prose, but she’s focussed on British politics.)

Which “classics” did you have in mind? I ask because you could have typed the same comment about “David Copperfield.” “Why doe this silly man waste his energies in redundant labour? It’s well known that every important moral lesson is laid out in “The Illiad.” Far better for Mr. Dickens’s squalid audience to take up…

Pose is great. Everything you said, 100%. I’m going to start re-watching it tonight, instead of moping around. Thanks for the uplift. 

In defense of Sue’s college, it’s not clear from her post that she actually got a degree. 

I’m White, in a mostly Black neighborhood. A few months ago My neighbor K. confessed to me that she was the one called the police six years back, to tell them a White guy was burying a body in the vacant lot. That would have been me, digging in the garden. I told her I’d have done the same. 

Thanks for that. It’s so messed up, when people wish for more sexual violence, for any reason. 

Elsewhere in the world of comedy, I ran across this yesterday:

https://thegolfnewsnet.com/golfnewsnetteam/2017/04/28/which-us-president-played-the-most-golf-in-office-104772/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/samantha-bees-husband-school/

Thanks, I was worried for a second. A quick search, and here’s the link to Snopes, if anyone’s interested:

If Netflix gave it 8 or 10 hours, and a budget, “The Black Jacobins” could be amazing.

My wiki-search suggests that Jay is well within the parameters of standard usage:

They were just waiting for the bar to be set low enough. Raise it an inch or so and you’ll start seeing social justice activism taper off dramatically.

I’m White, named “Hank,” after my mom’s dad. Not a very common name, when I was born. More an early 20th century name, for cowboys and gas-station attendants. I was 16 before I met another Hank, and she was a Black professor of English Lit. And I was the first Hank she had met. She’s also been named for her…

You got that right. You’d think at this point, 9,500 +/- jokes into the term, the libs would begin to appreciate our president’s comedic genius. But no. 

Your linked blog is talking about longevity in places like Guangxi and Okinawa. In the United States, the correlation between wealth and longevity is well established. Money has a great deal to do with how long people live in this country.  https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/04/for-life-expectancy-money-matter…

Uh, yeah, I know who Manafort is. I have a newspaper-reader’s understanding of what he’s been up to. I’m glad he’s locked up. I didn’t like the rape reference on MY account, not his. Some days that kind of rape-y joke hits me worse than others. Dismiss away.

I’m really not liking the rape joke. Not just because it’s the stupidest, tiredest, most-used-ever, worn-out-fifty-years-ago prison rape joke, but because of the overt support it lends rape culture. 

And it’s the Prison Shower Rape Joke!!!!!

Well, “Just Being Real” is an absolute howler, for starters.