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Clearly this e-mail is more joke than geopolitical manifesto, but an important point still needs to be made about the grievance underlying its humor. Let us assume for the sake of argument that Bush really does care only for his cronies’ interests, that all the other reasons he has mentioned for military action in Iraq are mere show. This may well be true; but if so, the question should be not why Bush wants to invade Iraq, but why we do or do not support this action...
...none. Even the winner's gold and turquoise crown was bought on credit. "There are people with money in the community," notes Wangyal, "but they are not coming forward." He asked actor Richard Gere, who visited the Dalai Lama two weeks ago, for support. "He thought it was a joke, and when he stopped laughing, he wished me the best of luck...
...home, watching "The Corky Collins Show" with her friend Penny Pingleton (Kerry Butler). Fat Mama Edna (Fierstein) wants to be alone in her misery; she growls to Penny, "Go tell your mother she wants you." Edna is married to medium-size Wilbur (Dick Latessa), who runs the local joke shop; his ambition is to "keep the air from leaking out of my sofa-size Whoopee Cushion." The goal Edna mentions has the same working-class practicality about it: she wants to "find a way to get blood out of car upholstery." But she has a loftier, more furtive dream...
...World's Funniest Joke...
...Laugh Lab at Hertfordshire University Wiseman's conclusions may strike you as counterintuitive. Germans, for instance, top the list of the world's funniest, not because they are comedic geniuses but because they laugh at anything. (Do not laugh at that unless you are German. It was not a joke.) The least amused: Canada, by a country mile. "The result was clear and consistent throughout the whole thing," Wiseman says. They just didn't find much to laugh about. I don't care so much about what made Germany laugh, or what made Canada not laugh, or that France - surprise...