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...yourself in a five-page “MUST READ” piece on “How to Get a Girl”—but don’t be deterred by your inability to think of genuinely useful advice. Instead, indulge your own sense of humor at the expense of women—or, as you prefer to call them, “giant bitches that cry all the time.” After all, the piece isn’t really about your readers; it’s about finding something to go with those...
...current form,” says Lebwohl.Though Nick Summers of IvyGateBlog.com is highly skeptical of college television in general, the blog gave “Ivory Tower” a rare positive review, comparing it to a previously panned Columbia soap.“The humor is more subtle—we hope that was irony, at least,” Summers says. “The acting a little more inspired…and overall, this is a show with a lot more polish.”Commenting on his criticism of “Love/Hate...
George Bush's sense of humor has always run more to frat-house gag than art-house irony, so he may not have appreciated the poetic justice any more than the legal justice on display in the Libby verdict...
...person because she could like me not just despite, but for my lovable gayness. Similarly, I have some straight friends who, having several gay friends and being politically liberal, feel they’ve cleared their names enough to indulge in “ironically” anti-gay humor, which often consists of simply referencing a person’s homosexuality, but without actually forming a witticism...
Post-homophobic and post-racist humor, like any humor, only really sizzles when you have something funny to say; if you don’t, you’ll probably just end up showing off an ugly side of yourself that is a little too interested in parsing people into gay and straight, white and not-white. That’s the tendency that the Bad People find so repulsive—what they implicitly assume is contained in all humor that hints at homophobia, racism, sexism, genderism, etc. When they find it where it really exists, though...