On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, folks I knew twenty years ago said that postmodernism - for all its
> embrace of irony - was the end of irony...
>
> just like identity politics was the end of humor.
>
> Students committed to such "critical" politics thought Blazing Saddles was
> racist, just as we were for showing it as an example of American
> Exceptionalism: where else could Jewish and Black comedians co-author a
> screenplay and produce a movie using German bathroom humor to address issues
> of race and class in the settlement of the American West?... it went all the
> way to the Provost and Ombudsman (which some students, not choosing to
> investigate the roots of the word, thought was a sexist title).
>
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> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> [from The Note]
>>
>> "I have not been involved in such an open and transparent process as this.
>> I'm very, very proud that we have done it." -- Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont.,
>> before heading back behind closed doors to meet on health care.
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