“Swaziland has a GDP per capita is about $5,500 per year, but apparently you can™t put a price on good fortune. Or an AIDS vaccine.” – Punte, With Leather, June 9, 2009
David Roth replies, “kudos to Punte, for demonstrating the clarifying effect of what happens when ‘offensive humor’ forgets to actually include any humor. Or, alternately, when sub-tarded Mencia-style ‘I’m saying what you’re thinking but afraid to say’ crosses the ‘no, I actually wasn’t thinking that at all’ line.”
G.I. Blow (Me)’s sports blog isn’t merely the dopiest voice of the maniacally entitled — on this occasion Ufford Inc. has crossed over from the plainly predictable to crudely malicious-for-the-sake-of-if. That might even qualify as a slim achievement if didn’t require shitting on the planet’s defenseless. These are the freedoms your military is fighting for, ladies and gentlemen ; the constitutional right to degrade other cultures and confirm the ugliest of stereotypes about duuuuudes.
There’s nothing remotely humorous about 228 persons perishing aboard an Air France Rio-To-Paris flight that went missing earlier this week, even if it did recall a fantastic scene from Albert Brooks’ “Real Life
please credit the author in the future, Mr. Knievel. But on to your (presumed point), the Orlando Magic and Michael Pietrus were mocked with the post in question, not the 228 missing and presumed dead.
Obviously you don’t think there’s a world of difference in this case, but I can sleep pretty well knowing however repugnant you found said entry (and it DID recall a scene from “Real Life” — if Chuck Grodin can be asked how he managed to “lose” a horse, certainly the same question could be posed when Air France announced they’d lost a jumbo jet!), I’m not exchanging high-fives over Swaziland’s losing battle with AIDS.