Isn't that kind of shit generally filed under "Satire"?

That's a pretty crappy, hypersensitive post by Althouse.

But I'll bet Reynolds links it.

But you've gotta' admit, that whole "blame it on the Puerto Ricans" thing is pretty funny, especially the way they don't understand what the cops are saying and can only respond in that weird devil-tongue language they all use.

Demonstrates a complete lack of humor on both sides.

I have to disagree with you about the Nervous White Guy voice, Ace. It's just not a funny bit. It was annoying when they first started doing it, and it's still annoying and unfunny.

I take that back. Richard Pryor was the first guy to do that, and anything he does is funny. After that, yawn.

Cop pulls over a blonde driving too fast on the highway. He asks for her license and she freaks out.

"You guys are driving me crazy! If you take my license away one day, how am I supposed to show it to you the next!"

Chappelle does a good one.

The trouble is that it's a stock bit, done to death, but lesser commedians traffic in lame stock bits.

Good comics can take old tropes and make them laugh out loud funny, just because they're inherently talented.

My favorite feminist joke (er joke told by a feminist)

Q: What do you call that useless flap of skin on the end of a penis?

A: A Man.

As Mr. Garrison once said "I dont trust an animal that bleeds for 5 days and dosent die"

Seems Althouse has to hyperventilate about women's issues every now-and-again. She wrote a rant during the Roberts confirmation hearing lamenting his choice of baseball-umpire metaphor to explain the role of justices for "making it obvious that the judicial process is just a men's club and women should stay aware" or some other ridiculous crap.

What I couldn't understand was, does Althouse really think women couldn't understand the umpire explanation? Isn't that a bit more insulting to women? It seems to be Roberts used the umpire figure because it's a simple illustration of a judicial philosophy that EVERYBODY can get.

So... yeah...

Hey, Althouse -- bet you can't guess what has two thumbs and loves blowjobs?

Is this thread going to become a forum for all of the politically incorrect jokes we know?

"...plowing the fields, so to speak, and by that, I mean sticking a yoke on them and making them drag a plow through frozen earth for next year's corn plantin'..."

Wow, and here I thought Allah was the resident expert on kinky sex talk.

Is this thread going to become a forum for all of the politically incorrect jokes we know?

I'm optimistic. As long as they don't tell the stupid 'iron this' joke.

Personally, I think she just likes to bitch everyone in a while. Plus she's got that whole academic, I'm a victim thing going. Was pretty telling that she thought highly of Andrew Dorkin when her death came around.

*Dworkin

Thing is, men really do resent the way women use their veto power to control us and I think they're lucky we can still laugh about it. In days of yore, guys got some perks to make up for this inequity, but these days we're as likely to do everything they used to do for us and still get frozen out.

I think if I were a chick I'd laugh along and hope the guys let it go at that.

Cutler - No need to fix the spelling. . . a thought the first one was more appropriate.

Still driving around with that bottle of ether in your van, sponge?

Still driving around with that bottle of ether in your van, sponge?

Hey, who are we to judge how sponge picks up women? Sure, his methods may seem unorthodox, but what works, works.

"Maureen Dowd's made a cottage industry of it; she just wrote a book that I've nominated to the Guiness World Records committee as the World's Longest Friendster Profile"

Ace, if you thought that one up, you've earned mad props.

As for the racial humor, obviously skin color excuses a lot. For instance, black people can use the N-word and I can't, and my ancestors never even owned a black person (I kid! I kid! See, sarcasm!).

I think much of it comes down to confidence. If you can *confidently* tell a racial joke, you can get away with it. If your audience smells fear, then you're going to bomb, or worse.

I'm thinking of how much press "It" girl Sarah Silverman is getting right now for telling racial jokes that are just plain funny, making her the first funny female comedian in, ohhh, 10,000 years. But she tells them so deadpan, matter-of-factly that nobody can take her seriously. If, however, she approached it cautiously, very conspiratorially, then the jokes wouldn't be funny, just creepy.

Working racial humor is a tough bit. I do it sparingly on my blog, even though in private half my good jokes have to do with making fun of whites, blacks, Chinamen, dot-dot Indians, and smallpox blanket Indians. Oh, and those dirty Mexicans-- can't forget them either. Bottom line, it's just plain hard to communicate to some folks that the *stereotype* is what's funny, and that's what's worth laughing at.

I guess I just really wish I was Dave Chapelle, and could get away with his schtick. Retired asshole.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Oh, and those dirty Mexicans-- can't forget them either.

Frickin' gringo pendejo.

You're just lucky I'm only half Mexican and haven't yet mastered the butterfly knife.

"That's a pretty crappy, hypersensitive post by Althouse.

As far as I am concerned, ALL of Althouse's posts are crappy & hypersensitive. I thought she must be the second coming of sun-tzu or something by the buildup others gave her, and then when 3 months of checking her blog breathlessly for a pearl of wisdom and being disappointed every freakin' day, I gave it up.

I get more cutting analysis and legal information from the drunk on the corner.

Thats not bragging much, buddy.
Hmph.

"Is this thread going to become a forum for all of the politically incorrect jokes we know?"

Why not?

Why don't Kentucky high schools teach sex eduction and driver's education on the same day?
It's too hard on the horse.

What do West Virginia girls say when they lose their virginity?

"Get off me Dad, yer crushin' my smokes."

Hell, I even do a funny Nervous White Guy Voice. It's just a funny bit.

Any of you lunkheads think that Althouse was pointing out the hypocrisy and double standard?

Any of you lunkheads think that Althouse was pointing out the hypocrisy and double standard?

Who cares? Why should we buy Althouse's grrrl power schtick when she shrieks like a 50s housewife seeing a mouse every time her inner feminist is offended?