I’ve criticized him before but Frank Rich’s column today is a home run. It truly is a good cultural sign that Mel Brooks and Tony Soprano are taking the bland entertainment industry to the cleaners. I think it’s more anti-p.c. backlash. Yayy!
OUR NEIGHBOR TO THE NORTH: Canada’s National Post finds that 55 percent of Canadians now support equal marriage rights for gays and straights. More significant, a whopping 73 percent of the 18 – 29 year old age bracket supports them. All in all, some 44 percent approve of homosexuality up from 22 percent just five years ago. Straw in the wind?
DERBYSHIRE AWARD NOMINEE: “After eight years of the extremist, anti-people, anti-access policies of the Clinton administration and its overzealous application of the Endangered Species Act and the shutdown of recreational access to public lands as well as the commercial access, we’re now going to have more of a balance,” – Mike Hardiman, legislative director of the American Conservative Union. Anti-people? If only Clinton had stuck to hugging trees.
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