When in fact we are really obsessed with money.

Numbers vs words: Almost as much time is devoted to running the same check-is-in-the-mail sums and calendar dates over and over again in one’s head than is dedicated to mentally shifting words about.

“If you catch your son looking at porn, what do you say when his stepmom might be one of the women he’s looking at?”

Slate prissily calls O’Neal a “sexist” and “even a misogynist;” bemoans the fact that his early death will prevent him from “exploring the sources of his anger;” and helpfully explains the phenomenon of the “laughter of recognition,” in a painful-to-read thingie about the late comic (whose CD drops today.)

(Have I mentioned lately how hard it is to read contemporary “concern troll” style “writing about comedy like this crap?)

BONUS:

Candid discussion about race, and why white people hate themselves (two of the panelists are dead now, btw — can comedians even get insurance?)

ExACTly:

Professor Henry Brubaker said: “Deciding who’s cleverest between left and right is like deciding which tube of Smarties would make the best Pope.

But right wingers are at least intelligent enough to assume that everyone is a potential enemy. Especially those who give hugs instead of handshakes.

“And while racism, homophobia and insisting climatology is a pyramid sales scam are all a bit dense, so is standing on top of a pile of skulls and shouting, ‘let’s try it again’.”

But Julian Cook, from Finsbury Park, insisted that, if you thought about it, Stalin was actually right wing, which everyone on the left thought was a very clever thing to say.

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ALSO?

When I get fired from jobs, this is why.

At my last office job, we were “rewarded” for something or other by being forced to go on this “fun day” at Playdium.

I brought along a biography of Ronald Reagan and read it in the lobby.

I am not joking.

How’s about the Cleveland Huffers?

As I’ve been saying for years:

The Charter of Rights and Freedoms was thrown together a few years ago by a bunch of mediocre lawyers, some of whom were actually French.

We’re not talking Thomas Jefferson or John Adams here. With the exception of Trudeau, no one behind the Charter was smarter than I am (let alone inspired by God) and certainly not smart enough to tell me how to live.

It. Doesn’t. Matter. What. It. Says.

The Charter has as much import and impact upon my life as the instruction manual that came with my microwave.

Stop living your life as if this useless scrap of paper has any power or meaning.

Anyhow, Mark Steyn responds to Justice “Sleepy” Ginsberg (along with the disgusting Prop 8 decision) at The Corner:

If that’s insufficiently legalistic, I’ve also described it as “a worthless piece of junk.” By design, it excludes property rights, which Locke, Montesquieu, and other irrelevant dead guys all saw as an indispensable condition for liberty. It embeds identity-group preferences as a constitutional principle.

And it empowers hack bureaucrats to determine the appropriate balance between genuine rights such as free speech and the pseudo-“rights” doled out by the state’s social engineers. It represents, as do many of the more fashionable constitutions admired in the Times piece, a precise inversion of the definition of “rights.” (…)

It seems pretty clear from today’s Ninth Circuit decision that Americans increasingly live in, if not quite yet a post-constitutional republic, at any rate a post-modern one.

…who see such material as “racist” or “xenophobic” and brings the hammer down on Rabinowitz and Nkonzo and as many other comics as they can?

Let’s see… judging from the material, they’re stuck in about 1982 or therabouts. So… we calculate that they have another decade before the P.C. shit hits the fan.

Message to South African comedians: Enjoy the innocence and the freedom to address the issues of race and polygamy and religion the way you see fit. It’s only a matter of time before certain topics (and certain methods for dealing with them) are declared off-limits!

Does Mark Dice look familiar…?

You’re welcome!

If you’re like most educated people, you’ve absentmindedly noticed at some point that the United States occupies a wide tract of land. There’s a lot of that stuff in the middle—the zone with the empty square states they use for missile practice, and those ones in the South where they sprayed black people with fire hoses and sicced dogs on them (as featured in your high school history textbook) (unless you went to high school in the South.)

Yeah, those places.

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About those fire hoses…

America: Next Time, We’ll Pick Our Own Cotton!

(And remember to celebrate “White Atrocity Month” every day at Mitchieville)

As you heard here first a month ago, “journalism professor” Miller (you remember him as the insatiable power bottom in that classic Mark Steyn sheep-themed dungeon scene) has now compared the folks at Sun News to terrorists.

I guess he just couldn’t resist coming back for more abuse at the hands of real pros…

“Too Fat To Fit Through the Eye of a Needle” — My latest at Taki’s:

Murray’s findings overturn plenty of received wisdom, left and right. His data indicate that the white working class is less religious than it used to be—startlingly, less religious than today’s elites.

(So much for those folks who are desperately “clinging to their guns and religion” in Obama’s fever dreams.)

Add that to the fact that upper-class rates of crime, divorce, and unwed motherhood are comparatively low. Those much-derided elites have actually replaced the poor as the salt of the Earth.

70% of Egyptians oppose U.S. foreign aid!

If I’d pitched this story the day Carolla delivered his anti-OWS rant (in November), they’d have a) turned it down or b) taken it and not paid me.

So basically they went with b), but in their own special way:

I daresay it’s this mix of politically oblivious honesty and no desire to toe a party line that has made Carolla particularly attractive to Republicans right now. After spending months obsessively focusing on the stodgy likes of Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, they find a guy like Carolla — who’s sharp, funny, unrehearsed and hip to pop culture — a sight for bored eyes.

And it doesn’t hurt that Carolla is a walking pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-boostraps success story, having grown up with a single mother on welfare and food stamps. He held jobs in construction and as a boxing trainer before eventually making it as an entertainer.

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PS: his first “Evening with Dennis Prager” sold out, so they’ve added a second show at 10:30.