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...Texas Observer with friend Kaye Northcott. The two cut a swath through Texas politics in grand Observer tradition, investigating and exposing misdeeds and championing causes. In person, the two looked nothing like a duo from central casting - Molly beyond six feet, with big hair and a wide laugh; Kaye, petite, tiny, birdlike - but both gritty journalists...
...funny. This is the premise of a long essay in January's Vanity Fair by Christopher Hitchens, best known for his broadsides against Mother Teresa and defenses of the Iraq war. His first theory as to why--in a nutshell--is that women don't need to make men laugh to impress them. (Either that, Chris, or they just don't try that hard in front of you.) His second--in a smaller nutshell--is that they make babies. "Those who risk agony and death to bring children into this fiasco simply can't afford to be too frivolous...
...little peepee humor for him. Silverman doesn't like to speculate on the show's gender appeal: "I just like to think of myself as a comic." But she may have ended up unwittingly rebutting Christopher Hitchens the best way possible: by having, and getting, the last laugh...
Japan's politics are pretty much a no-laugh zone, so you might excuse voters in the rural southwestern prefecture of Miyazaki for electing independent candidate Hideo Higashikokubaru?a political neophyte better known as former TV comedian Sonomanma Higashi?to be Governor in a landslide win on Jan. 21. But Higashikokubaru's win may have less to do with entertainment than with public dissatisfaction over Japanese politics, increasingly seen as corrupt and ineffective. His predecessor, also an independent, resigned amid corruption allegations, and scandals have forced two of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's top ministers to resign...
...makes me laugh the hardest is Simon Cowell. I'm always shocked at what comes out of his mouth. Wow! But in his defense, he's just speaking openly and honestly...