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Tracking the LaughsThe truth is, comedy didn't go away when sitcoms did; it just moved. Even as TV dramas became more complicated and dark, many of them, like Lost, Rescue Me and The Sopranos, also provided some of the funniest moments on television. (Think Christopher and Paulie Walnuts stuck in the Pine Barrens.) And one reason audiences flock to reality shows is that they are often funny - be it because of Tim Gunn's witticisms or Donald Trump's hair...
...only dark cable comedies that have borrowed tricks from dramas. (The Office and Parks are also willing to take their characters into dramatic territory.) CBS's How I Met Your Mother is like a sitcom version of Lost: it's built around a central mystery - how the protagonist meets his eventual wife - and likes to play with nonlinear narratives, story lines that jump around in time. It's a light show, but it expects its viewers to pay much closer attention than did the sitcoms of a generation ago (as does Emmy-winning 30 Rock, which is shot through with...
...grumbling: Now "we are acting the same stupid part." And so just as a reluctant Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, then handed down the Ten Commandments, a reluctant George Washington led the colonists to victory, then presided over the drafting of the Constitution. The parallel was not lost. Two-thirds of the eulogies at Washington's death compared the "leader and father of the American nation" to the "first conductor of the Jewish nation...
...motivation. He had himself made a dumb calculation about Prop 8; he was so confident it wouldn't pass, that instead of knocking on doors on Election Day in California, he had traveled to Nevada to canvass in Reno and Sparks on behalf of Barack Obama. Obama won; gays lost...
...report sounds fantastical on its face, and Muhammad al-Jasser, Saudi Arabia's central bank governor, lost no time in branding it "absolutely incorrect." But the fact that these assertions are being made at all shows how seriously confidence in the dollar has been shaken. The world's central banks are starting to shun the dollar. According to Barclays Capital, nations reporting currency breakdowns of their reserves invested 63% of new cash in euro and yen in the quarter to June 2009. It seems the U.S. will have to resign itself to a weaker currency until its economic house...