Ali G now faces the collective wrath of Kazahkstan, and he's one of thre funniest guys in the world.
It's over - you can hardly get away with a sense of humor anymore without someone getting offended.
Brad Klein! Ohmygawdinheaven! To read that utterance from the busy fingers of a lifelong, card-carrying member of Academia makes me snort with laughter.
We had an interesting juxtaposition (today's pedantic vocabulary word) at dinner the other night at Casa de Redhead/Dicknozian.
At one seat, a 49 year-old, female Special Education teacher, a vocal and staunch conservative, swooning over a confirmed liberal in the Houston Oil & Gas business.
Across the table, a famous writer (liberal) who runs an even more famous golf design firm, talking to a Phd. college professor (staunch conservative) with a degree in Childhood Music Education.
At the other end, an Ivy League, Wharton Educated (Univ. Penn) CFO and his wife (VP Fed EX), both liberals, talking to a potato grower (and Reverend on the pulpit for 45 years) who calls himself a "ConLiberal."
Throw in a precocious 13 year-old and Libertarian kook (moi') and you see the beauty of the modern era.
Where else could you bring together such an ecclectic collection of disparate people, all holding contrary views to the majority of their *demographic* and having a grand old time over a gourmet meal cooked by the Redhead.
TE: Political correctness (in MNSHO) is usually complete nonsense. A pseudo-intellectual, newspeak canard which empty-headed fools dream up and then give credence to concepts like Ebonics.
Yet, if you listen closely to this collection - and I did - (the no-vino wagon will do that to you) everybody sort of met in the middle.
That is because, if you put aside all the shrill dogma, most thinking people - regardless of what side of the aisle they root for - share similar opinions.
It was almost like watching the great pendulum move in smaller and smaller swings. Common sense always wins in the end.
The trick is getting all the smart people to listen to each other.
I promise you. This too shall pass. I watched it before my eyes.