While doing volunteer service as arbiter of the comic proprieties, Hitch wrote "the sable Sapphist" twice in a few lines. -- A little elegant variation, anyone? -- Or at least some corresponding expression for straight white old farts? "The pallid breeder ..."? Ha ha? (It's less humorous than "the sable Sapphist"; it doesn't alliterate!)
"Limbaugh's life, like his appeal, is a closed book to me. But I presume that he was on painkiller medication for some reason before he began to become dependent on it..." The reason was that he was a sabacous cyst of a junkie. And the day Limbaugh treats anyone else's life like closed book will be the day I actually read one of his.
This clearly isn't Hitchens at his best - his thinly-veiled misogynistic streak reaches the boiling point here - but I can't disagree with him. I love Sykes in general, but her political humor is about as nuanced as a Janeane Garofalo or Margaret Cho, and can be painful to watch. Her mildly endearing aside "Too much, Mr. President?" should not have rung quite as true as it did.
I knew Slate would eventually make Christopher a DoubleX contributor.
This must be the first time that Les Dawson has gotten a shout-out on Slate.
While doing volunteer service as arbiter of the comic proprieties, Hitch wrote "the sable Sapphist" twice in a few lines. -- A little elegant variation, anyone? -- Or at least some corresponding expression for straight white old farts? "The pallid breeder ..."? Ha ha? (It's less humorous than "the sable Sapphist"; it doesn't alliterate!)
"Limbaugh's life, like his appeal, is a closed book to me. But I presume that he was on painkiller medication for some reason before he began to become dependent on it..." The reason was that he was a sabacous cyst of a junkie. And the day Limbaugh treats anyone else's life like closed book will be the day I actually read one of his.
"It may be a fetching-enough smile, but we old stand-up artists learned long ago that if you have to signal a joke, then it is a weak one."
Hitchens as a stand-up artist: I thought he was a fall-down drunk?
This clearly isn't Hitchens at his best - his thinly-veiled misogynistic streak reaches the boiling point here - but I can't disagree with him. I love Sykes in general, but her political humor is about as nuanced as a Janeane Garofalo or Margaret Cho, and can be painful to watch. Her mildly endearing aside "Too much, Mr. President?" should not have rung quite as true as it did.