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Well, Richard may be the Machiavellian (and not a little Malkovichian) puppetmaster of "Survivor," and he's certainly holding the show together entertainment-wise with his catty punditry and villainous wit. But he's still just a plump (but getting thinner) guy who likes to walk around naked - in other words, he's just one man, and for him the Tribal Council's expulsion of Greg on Wednesday must have carried a disturbing amount of unpredictability. (Best exit yet, by the way. Leaves with a "Jerk" impression, and then eschews CBS press tour.) To wit...
...religions need to be respected. By the way, he continued, the N.U. was founded by 6,000 wise Muslim clerics, and did the questioner want to criticize all 6,000 of them? The crowd dissolved into laughter; the questioner was speechless. This is the weapon of the famous Wahid wit...
...really? Spy's rarefied, Manhattan-centric humor wouldn't be likely to find a mass audience online, but the cheap, egalitarian Web has long been a haven for wisenheimers: the cutting commentary of Suck www.suck.com) the deadpan fake-newspaper Onion www.theonion.com and the esoteric wit of McSweeney's www.mcsweeneys.net) More recently, old media have tried to get Blair Witch-y with sites like Time Warner's Entertaindom www.entertaindom.com) whose flashy but lame Hollywood spoofs prove the rule that online humor is funny in inverse proportion to its budget. And even in the Web's grownup days of corporate sites...
...short-term tax revenues that may result." Among other things, he said, the new law could result in a higher tax on books delivered online than those bought in a bookstore. Ken Wasch, president of Europe's Software & Information Industry Association, called the directive "simply unenforceable." Guido de Wit, a VAT tax expert with a Brussels law firm, notes that the commission intends to use credit-card billing addresses in chasing tax revenues. That, he observes, is likely to run afoul of credit-card companies that want no part in releasing information for tax purposes...
George Bush the elder has a theory, to wit...