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...Brilliant bumbler Tom Poston got his start as one of Steve Allen's "man on the street" interviewees and later shone as a spacey drunk in Mork & Mindy and a hapless handyman in Newhart, roles he said he understood all too well. "In ways I don't like to admit, I'm a goof-up myself," he said...
...instincts tell us to apply the same basic principles to racial dialogue, and in practice we usually do. Even the staunchest advocates of equal opportunity racism must admit that contemporary culture grants a special leeway to public figures who mock their own ethnic group. It is hard to imagine that a white Dave Chappelle would have much success casually tossing around the n-word on national television. Similarly, if a gentile comedian told us to “throw the Jew down the well,” it would lead to an uproar, but when Sacha Baron Cohen?...
...historical memory, there must be an extremely compelling reason—beyond say, a mostly controllable health risk—for its defense to continue. And if bearers of a cause have to invent new justifications for their beliefs—if they are unwilling to ascribe to (or admit to ascribing to) traditional justifications, they may be out of luck in sustaining their cause...
...Facebook profile lists “the bitch set me up” as her hometown. I can always get a laugh from Googling the words “Marion Barry + quotation,” which yields dozens of sites with the same ridiculous list of excerpts. Many admit to skepticism about the material’s authenticity, but the excerpts are amusing nonetheless. For example: “People have criticized me because my security detail is larger than the president’s. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than...
...York City: Being a city boy, I admit my bias, but there's nothing like running Central Park's 9.6-km loop (on dirt trails when possible) or a few times around the reservoir. The best times of all are on cold weekdays, when most people are at work, and on spring weekends...