Larry Charles made a list of 28 at Entertainment Weekly.He's got some greats but every single one is a white dude (except Sarah Palin), so he's missed some of the best. So subvert is making a list of our own.
I'm thrilled to be be performing on Wednesday the 15th to fight Prop 8 with one of these people in San Francisco: Margaret Cho. Buy your tix now.
Here is subvert.com's list of the top subversive comics of all time. Most of these people are not on the EW list. The number one thing that makes these folks subversive, that Larry Charles misses completely, is that for most of them just taking up public space as themselves unapologetically and truth talking in their own hilarious way was a subversive act. The most upending comic moments come when the comic has emotional skin in the game.
Apparently they want people to think it's scary that she worked at Sidley & Austin in Chicago where Bernadine Dohrn worked for a few years. Bernadine Dohrn is married to William Ayers. I went to Northwestern Law School where Bernadine teaches. I met with her there. She was one of very few female faculty when I was at school there. You know who else teaches there? Stephen Calabrese, co-founder of the Federalist Society, speechwriter to Dan Quayle and worker for Judge Robert Bork. I met with him too. Read the rest of this entry »
I'm always curious about why stuff happens and why we are the way we are….regardless of whether or not I agree with outcomes or behaviours or judgements. Here's a recently blogged McCain anger story about McCain losing it at a craps table. At risk of it sounding condescending for me to guess, it sounds like McCain has some kind of PTSD. Read the rest of this entry »
"The question that keeps popping up for me is whether Palin, who was born in Idaho, could possibly be part Native American (as we know her husband is), which sometimes seems suggested by her strong facial contours. I have felt that same extraordinary energy and hyper-alertness billowing out from other women with Native American ancestry — including two overpowering celebrity icons with whom I have worked."
I'm not surprised that Paglia digs Palin. Paglia loves a tough top who doesn't care much for self-important institutional intellectual navel-gazing (she likes that kind of navel gazing out in the blogs and press). I actually agree with Paglia on something-how crazy-that Palin is underestimated a lot.
I am amazed at how, in one sentence, Paglia turns her admiration for Palin into some kind of exoticized fetishism of Native American women (who apparently all have "extraordinary energy" and that also excited bt very different "hyper-alertness" celebrity worship and how great she, Paglia, is.
For the record, Palin doesn't seem to have done much in terms of action to support Natives in Alaska. Amazing how many descendants of immigrants want to focus on who is a "real" American while forgetting the only people who can call this an ancestral home.
