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English culture has offered a lot to the world over the years. Among its most noteworthy cultural contributions is its sense of humor. Marked by quirky sarcasm and subtlety, it is bloody hilarious and serves as a dear friend to all of those nerdy, socially awkward students who find most contemporary pop humor to be somewhat beneath them. Clearly, I’m no stranger to this mentality and, given the nature of the Harvard student body, I don’t think I’m alone here...
People say that Jon Stewart has blurred the line between news and humor, but his Daily Show airs on a comedy channel. Coulter goes on actual news programs and deploys so much sarcasm and hyperbole that she sounds more like Dennis Miller than Limbaugh. Consider an exchange on Fox News in June 2001 with Peter Fenn, a Democratic strategist. At the time, Barbra Streisand had suggested that Californians practice more conservation, to which Coulter responded...
Editorially, few U.S. newspapers defended the President's West German itinerary. "The victims and the butchers of Nazism are not equatable," observed the New York Times. Suggested the Boston Globe: "If Jimmy Carter or Walter Mon-dale had so ... befouled the dignity of the presidency . . . ridicule and sarcasm from right-wing sermonizers would still be echoing." But the press assault on the trip was not unanimous. "That some of the men buried at Bitburg were members of the SS . . . does not make the visit less proper," argued the Houston Post. "Those men are dead, killed fighting as regular troops . . . Death...
...once like you, my friends—a young, bold intellectual, full of sarcasm, prone to bitter self-doubt and frequent crises. Then I saw the video for “Evil,” and realized that the puppet protagonist embodied all these intimate emotions...
...Triumph's chronology may have been off - George W. Bush invaded Iraq two years ago - but the pooch's sarcasm was on target. If Air America's ultimate intent was to end war and change administrations - and it was - the network failed. AAR was founded and funded by liberals who saw the need for a liberal alternative in a wildly energized political season when arguing over Bush and his policies had become the national pastime. The network's founders had three dreams (not necessarily in this order): 1. provide talk radio with a countervailing force to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity...