I wonder if they are family friends of the Bush's too.<<<<

The one on the end looks like he may actually be a bush family member. Cletus M. Bush III

It's really not surprising that in a culture that celebrates dumbness, ignorance and that economically is spiraling down to a hard crash, that the last people okay to be attacked by the teeming masses via "humor" are those with education and economic status.

Sorry if I come off as "too white" by caring about things like spelling and not wearing my pants down around my knees. Get over it.

Sorry if I come off as "too white" by caring about the rest of the planet and my impact on it. As far as I'm concerned, acting like an ass and over-consuming "because you can" is the ultimate in smugness. That's all about over anyway. When gas hit's $10 a gallon you won't be able to afford to drive your big ass car and you'll be riding a bike right behind me.

Sorry if I come off as "too white" because I like getting 54 mpg in my Prius when gas costs nearly $5 a gallon. Tailgate me in your SUV and suck on your bug gulp slurpee. Continuing to pay $150 a week to run your gas hog is just dumb. Paying a fraction of that is smart. If being smart is smug, fine.

Sorry if I come off as "too white" because I drive my bike to work and to the store and yes, even grow my own veggies so I won't have to eat the chemically basted, cardboard tasting crap you buy in the stores. Enjoy you fattening thighs and encroaching diabetes.

If being superior to a dumbed down "hip hop" culture lite yo yo yo my humps! is smug. Tough. There is indeed a large joke being told, but it's not about us.

Naw, it's not racist at all, nothing to "get over." I welcome this fine evenhanded, "comedic" look at white folk. I'll put it on the bookshelf next to the books certainly coming from similar satirists poking gentle fun at da black folk. We'll yuck it up in the spirit of good fellowship while reading about how they ALL love to wear stained track suits from K-mart, each fried chicken, talk in rhyme,drive Cadillac Coup de ville's with gold rims, are obscenely fat from their love for greasy fast food, have natural rhythm and are ALL great dancers, singers and entertainers. Did I leave out any snarly, ugly, stupid racist stereotypes? I'm of Irish and Scottish stock and long used to "fun" looks at my race as drunken, penny pinching, combative louts. It's great fun to make fun of and be made fun of. Move along, nothing to "get over" here.

Isn't using the term "catfight" not once but twice in your article a sign of misogynism, Joan? I'm sure if someone had used that term about your darling Hillary, especially if it was a man, you'd be writing editorials about mean, mean, mean, sexists pigs.

For example, exactly what benefits did Obama's better than 2-to-1 financial advantage on television buy him in Pennsylvania?<<<

It whittled a 23% lead down to 9.6 in 5 weeks is what it did. The more people saw him (outside of the racist white hicks and women of a certain age who are projecting themselves into the race) the more they supported him.

Those internet tubes are tricky, joe!

I haven't heard "twee" used for a while. Perfect usage. I couldn't quite put my finger on what was annoying me but twee and shallow as a wading pool filled with lukewarm cream soda come to mind.

Sean McCormack, a State Department spokesman, has said it was nothing more than "imprudent curiosity" that led the employees to examine Obama's file.<<<<

And he knows this is only "imprudent curriosity", how?

today's nyt front page has "McCain, Long a G.O.P. Maverick, Is Gaining Mainstream Support" They call him a fly-boy maverick with nary a mention of his insane hoping for more and more and more wars. This guy is a babbling, insane idiot and electing him will lead to the death knell for America. Maybe a good thing as we've become the rogue nation of the world.

I thought this was an article about Facebook and all the stupid vampire biting and zombie eating. I fully support getting rid of those vampire appliances.

Sounds reasonable. I can't think of a single Republican that I wouldn't like to slap around. Not a single one. It's not surprising that they feel the same way about their own and at time it inadvertently slips out in front of a reporter.

She's imitating South Asian video shoutouts. From the internet cafes of Singapore and Malasia you see tons of UGV of teen girls who just stare at the camera, apparently unable to grok the microphone or just young and unsure of what to say.

Atheism alone is a rotting corpse. I substitute art and nature for God -- the grandeur of man and the vast mystery of the universe.<<<<<<

hey, we all did that art/nature/grandeur thing 35 years ago camilia when we were young and stoned. Reading this in your essay = content free fluff. And not very readable fluff at that. I only clicked on this article because of once upon a time reading an essay by CP that was literary, stimulating and thought provoking. I won't make this mistake again. This was a horrid, turgid, scatter-shot attempt at ..., well, something.

What the hell is wrong with these Repubican candidates? how could such a clueless, ignorant batch of rubes (thompson, Guiliani, etc...) even stand a ghost of a chance of being the chief executive of our country.

any subject manner can be funny, even rape (see sarah silverman), but this sketch was amateurish, clunky and looked like it was written, filmed and acted by drunk fratboys. Not funny. Not because of the subject matter but because of the poor writing, acting, production values.

make computer cost a pile of dough, bring back dialup and get rid of the easy interface of the Web. it's too easy for every drunk yahoo to log on to their broadband connection and post their rantings all over the place. make it difficult and many of the sheeple will go back to TV.

America is over. Electing Hillary is not going to change anything. She'll blather and whinge fof 4 years while the neocons regroup. Time to leave this country to the uneducated mowroons. They'll get what they deserve.

Scared?

Microsoft realizes they’re up against an Apple mindshare juggernaut. The tide is turning and Microsoft is about to be swept out to sea like the flotsam and jetsam that it is.<<<<<

har, you apple people are so funny. Apple made the decision to stay a tiny cult 20 some years ago and you should just deal with it instead of getting all pissy anyone mentions the small, unchanging size of your market share. If mac's were really so great, the company would be growing, yes? yet they remain a small share in a large global market, no less secure and no less functional (only more expensive). Enjoy your machine, enjoy your $600 cell phones. Fine. just quit bellyaching about how badly you are powned your competitors.