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...can’t be used to balance off an imagined moral ledger sheet or to cancel out privileges we feel bad about. Instead, we should try to avoid accumulating too much vulgar privilege in the first place—a quantity that isn’t measured in crude indexes like money or education or employment, but in the degree to which our social behavior trends either toward humility or toward hierarchism...
...wild chimpanzees the docile, childlike creatures portrayed on TV. Highly territorial, chimpanzees will attack and kill other chimps. Though mostly vegetarian, they will also hunt and kill other animals for food; young male chimpanzees in Africa have been known to fashion crude weapons and use them to hunt bushbabies for meat. Attacks on human beings are rare, but they do happen - and the results are often catastrophic. The former NASCAR driver St. James Davis, who raised a chimpanzee as a pet, was attacked by escaped chimps at an animal sanctuary in 2005; he was left with injuries and disfigurement...
...throwing gag after gag at the audience and seeing what sticks. His direction is smart in this way, helping the more clunky jokes fall by the wayside rather than linger. The audience barely has time to figure out a character’s twisted logic or groan at a crude one-liner before the play races off to the next non sequitur. Despite a script that at times seems more like a silly Mel Brooks slapstick farce than a clever Neil Simon fable, F.U.D.G.E.’s “Fools” thrives in the other aspects...
...with the most clichéd and common problems—“He’s Just Not That Into You” is surprisingly smart, touching, funny, and real. There are moments of genuine laugh-out-loud hilarity, and the film achieves it without resorting to crude jokes about sex or sexism. Even better, it resists the urge to end all of the subplots in happiness. Some of the characters change; some do not. Some relationships end predictably; the others take you so much by surprise that you may find yourself a little teary. Most...
...ConocoPhillips (COP) is another company that is firing 4% of its staff. Oil prices are down, but the company is hardly likely to have staffed up for $140 crude. Although revenue at the company fell in in the fourth quarter, for the year COP sales increased to $281 billion from $187 billion in 2007. Profits for 2008 were more than $16 billion...