Thanks, I read it. Dubious, I went to Wiki to read about his book, “A Troublesome Inheritance.” Here’s an excerpt from a letter published in the NY Times, by over 139 faculty members in population genetics and evolutionary biology:

Country/Western. Not as common, but common enough.

I just heard that there’s now a vaccine for peanut alergy...

OK... Not an exact science, and women of any ethnicity can have bad experiences with their health care providers.

Someone should also point out that Churchill, realizing his cognitive abilities were eroding, stepped down as Prime Minister.

And enjoys it.

100%.

“Surreal” works for me too. But as you note, it’s both broad and subjective in application. In the spirit of trying to be a little more precise, I’ll put “Dadaist” out there for consideration. Duchamp’s “Fountain” obviously, though his  “Nu descendant un escalier” conveys the whole arc of this administration…

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: