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"Mike and Jon, Jon and Mike—I've known them both for years, and, clearly, one of them is very funny. As for the other: truly one of the great hangers-on of our time."—Steve Bodow, head writer, The Daily Show
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"Who can really judge what's funny? If humor is a subjective medium, then can there be something that is really and truly hilarious? Me. This book."—Daniel Handler, author, Adverbs, and personal representative of Lemony Snicket
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"The good news: I thought Our Kampf was consistently hilarious. The bad news: I’m the guy who wrote Monkeybone."—Sam Hamm, screenwriter, Batman, Batman Returns, and Homecoming
December 07, 2006
Happy 78th Birthday, Weirdo
Today is the birthday of one of the greatest and most wonderful weirdos in human history.
(Thanks to Dennis for the reminder.)
Posted at December 7, 2006 01:06 PM | TrackBackThanks for the link to the book (previous thread), Jonathan.
And happy b'day to Noam!
[a quote I like, from BBC TV, 11/25/1992]
PILGER: Now you've had some quite spectacular rows - Arthur Schlesinger accused you of betraying the intellectual tradition.
CHOMSKY: I agree with him.
PILGER: You agree with him?
CHOMSKY: The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
Posted by: Henry at December 7, 2006 06:26 PMrecent Chomsky video: http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/403
He doesn't go into either here, but I'm puzzled by Chomsky's argument that the US won the Vietnam War, but actually is losing in Iraq....
Posted by: osama -- err -- sam at December 8, 2006 02:32 PMIIRC, he thinks the primary objective in Vietnam was just to prevent successful 3rd world independent development ('the threat of a good example') - and succeeded in this by destroying the country - whereas in Iraq the primary objective was to have control over that lever of the energy market.
Posted by: buermann at December 8, 2006 06:01 PM
