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...have to do is repackage it on a Comedy Central platter; the laughs and good ratings follow naturally. Though founded on pure humor and even some flat-out fabrications, shows like Colbert’s and Stewart’s have become an outlet for actual truth in a moment when the mainstream media can’t capitalize on lies and gaffes without coming off biased. Even Letterman was scolded for continually berating McCain for skipping his show.Conservative humor like “An American Carol,” on the other hand, makes use of much less...
...McCain had been trotting out a black wristband from the mother of a Corporal Matthew Stanley for cheap sympathy points since August of last year. I should have seen it coming: At just the right moment and in a lowered voice, he intoned, “She said, ‘Senator McCain, I want you to do everything—promise me one thing, that you’ll do everything in your power to make sure that my son’s death was not in vain...
According to the UNSESCO convention, an Intangible Cultural Heritage, by definition, exists only in relation to the members of its community. If we assume the best of the French for a moment, then protecting French cuisine may be much more about protecting and promoting the people involved than it is about putting French cuisine itself on a pedestal...
...reason to live in worrying about a young employee (“he doesn’t want people to be alone”) and a man who finds his reason to live when he rescues a woman from drowning (“he thought he would like this moment to be forever”). In each, emotional ties bind people together and keep them going. The characters themselves come across as so unique and weird and crazy that they at first they seem almost impossible to connect with, but it begins to make sense as the collection moves...
...fashioned fun. The episode shows that young mothers don’t have to miss out on the glories of youth while bonding with their children. After all, mother and child gain entrance because their combined age is twenty-one (goodbye fake ID’s), share a lovely moment while downing bottles of their respective beverages of choice, and get the VIP lounge all to themselves when it’s baby-feeding time. Now why didn’t I think of that? (Note to those thinking of improving your social life by trying this: while dancing...