Twelve “brave intellectuals” have issued an anti-Islamist manifesto. But are they part of the solution or part of the problem?
Perhaps some of you have seen the document titled, “Manifesto: Together Facing a New Totalitarianism,” which is being disseminated widely on the Web. Originally published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, of Mohammed cartoon fame, it’s a vow to resist Islamism signed by 12 individuals hailed as “brave intellectuals.” I read it, and while I have no idea whether or not the signatories are brave, their musings certainly illustrate why modern intellectuals are sorely lacking in intellectualism.…
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76 - moonraven
Bill Cosby is a very funny guy. I feel for his humor when I saw him on the Tonight Show in 1963.
He and I did two standup comedy shows together later that year at the Magic Inn night club in Seattle. My boyfriend at the time was working there doing standup and we happened to take Bill, who was in town opening for the Kingston Trio. The boyfriend--who was never all that funny--lost his voice after the first show of the night and Bill convinced me--by pouring a lot of gin tonics down me--to do the two shows with him.
It's a good thing that one of us was sober.
Later, we both turned up in Amherst, Massachusetts, where we got our doctorates from UMass.
Chuck Jones moved to Santa Fe, NM, when he retired. I lived there for 10 years and for 5 years of that time was the film critic for the Albuquerque Journal. We became friends--oddly enough because we have similar senses of humor.
You sods on this site are the most humorless group of palefaces I have ever dealt with. BAR NONE.
77 - Clavos
"You sods on this site are the most humorless group of palefaces I have ever dealt with. BAR NONE."
And yet, you keep coming back...
Aren't we lucky!
78 - Zedd
zing
Come on she's funny. Its just that she does it at all our expense.
79 - zingzing
"Come on she's funny. Its just that she does it at all our expense."
that's not the point. it's the name-dropping. all of it may or may not be true, but it is ultimately meaningless.
80 - REMF
I always loved Cosby's routine on the girlfriend who was so smart, she'd walk around asking questions like, Why is there air? And her IQ was 200...thousand!! 200,000!!!!
- MCH