Comedians

Jerry Seinfeld takes Obama for a spin in a 1963 Corvette, then Obama takes Seinfeld downstairs at the White House for a cup of coffee.

Do some kids need to be bullied?

Have you seen Jerry Seinfeld's new series entitled "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee?" Gerard Vanderleun linked to it here. I just watched Jerry driving a 1969 Lamborghini with Chris Rock. Jerry says, "This car goes fast!" Just then a cop pulls them over.

As they sit in a coffee shop discussing comedy, Chris also makes the case that some kids needs to be bullied, so they will withdraw and invent the next world-changing thing.

My favorite episode so far has been Jerry with Michael Richards. Very sweet ending.

Sorry I haven't been blogging much lately. I have been watching all of these episodes.

Here is a Seinfeldism from one of the episodes: Want to end a conversation? Tell the truth. "The truth ends all conversations."

Another: What will it be that screws your child up shen she is older? "I'll tell you what it won't be: what you think it will be."

A critical mass welling up?

Apparently some New York Times writers complained to someone at the New York Observer that the New York Times editorials were dull. Roger L. Simon writes that the problem is ideology.

How, for example, do you write an eloquent defense of Obamacare or justify the administration’s actions in Benghazi without resorting to the kind of obfuscation that makes for convoluted, or at best tedious, writing? How do you advocate for yet more government programs in a country already so mired in debt it’s hard to see how it will ever get out? It’s Keynesian economics itself that’s the problem, not Paul Krugman.

Apparently liberals have also turned on one of their icons - Jerry Seinfeld - who said in a Buzzfeed interview,

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested. I have no interest in gender or race or anything like that. But everyone else is kind of, with their calculating — is this the exact right mix? I think that’s — to me it’s anti-comedy. It’s more about PC-nonsense.

Simon summarizes,

Both of these seemingly minor media dust-ups are yet more indications that our society is at a tipping point. A critical mass may be welling up against the tyranny of modern liberalism. The next few years will be interesting — culturally and politically.