Letters to the Editor
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Irony
"... in general I think that Jews have, over centuries of suffering and persecution, developed the most finely attuned sense of irony the human race has ever known."
As a Jew myself (and a Gibson anti-fan since Mrs. Soffel -- I got a sense) I think the tense is wrong in an otherwise accurate description of one aspect -- my fave -- of Jewish adaptations.
Jews *had* developed a finely tuned sense of irony. There's still a large portion of the world Jewish population that continues to use irony to help deal w/the daily onslaught I'm sure, but there's a competing trend that began circa 1919 -- as is represented in these comments.
(not to change the topic but that was too juicy to let go w/out comment)
I thought the piece was great, and many of the letters that attempt to explain what to some is incomprehensible have made the article even better, so to speak.
That's ironic.