acculturation : perspicacity : the monkey box : slate mag makes me think

Noo... No. Not. Despite what the MSN.com teaserline would have us believe, everyone does not love Larry the Cable Guy.

This writer just doesn't get it. While he exposes the roots of this brand of comedy, he seems to take for granted that just because things are marginally better, these personas are now "anachronistic," when they are still surely just as relevant. The crux of David Cross's criticism are not the descriptors; it's the goddamned noun itself: "pride." That is what separates the bigots from the meta-bigots. It's one thing to play up a caricature to the point of absurdity in order to expose the true idiocy at its heart; it's quite another to make it a banner under which to celebrate and fortify the divisiveness.

I only have to walk into any given gas station/convenience mart/cigarette store to see that is what Larry is. I doubt that all of the 'Git-R-Done' paraphernalia is actually a codified hearkening to Not Be Stupid.



On a... different appendage, nobody does irreverance better than Sarah Silverman. I used to inexplicably hate her but now... I think I'm in love.