tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post116450333666779106..comments2024-03-06T03:15:58.539-05:00Comments on <b>THE NEW REFORM CLUB</b>: The “N” WordHunter Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1164572256501143712006-11-26T15:17:00.000-05:002006-11-26T15:17:00.000-05:00Indeed. Richards should lose his career not becau...Indeed. Richards should lose his career not because of thoughtcrime, but for the capital offense of not knowing what's not funny.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1164541323571485182006-11-26T06:42:00.000-05:002006-11-26T06:42:00.000-05:00I stand with Richards, and with Charles Sykes, who...I stand with Richards, and with Charles Sykes, whose concluding advice in <I>A Nation Of Victims</I> was that Americans should "lighten up."<BR/><BR/>Perhaps we should recur to the works of those celebrated social philosophers, the Firesign Theater:<BR/><BR/>It's candied apples,<BR/>And ponies with dapples,<BR/>You can ride all day.<BR/>It's girls with pimples,<BR/>And cripples with dimples<BR/>That just won't go away.<BR/><BR/>It's spics and wops and niggers and kikes<BR/>With noses as long as your arm.<BR/>It's micks and chinks and gooks and geeks,<BR/>And honkies --<BR/>Who've never left the farm!<BR/><BR/>That's America, buddy!<BR/><BR/>["How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All?", 1969]<BR/><BR/>--Francis W. Porretto,<BR/>--Mick-Wop-Honky-American and proud of it.Francis W. Porrettohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.com