Sarah Silverman

I am a student of the Sarah Silverman school of comedy. She is the cute Jewish actress/comedienne who, on a late night talk show, appropriately called a pompous man from some minor Asian protest group a "douche bag." He had allowed himself to be offended by the fact that she had once told a joke with the word "Chink" in it. Sarah will not, and should not be silenced.

Sarah consistently challenges political correctness. No thin-skinned person should ever see her in performance, but those of us who are not frightened by "inappropriate" words can enjoy an evening of laughing at ourselves. Except for her douche bag remark, she is rarely mean to anyone, certainly never anyone who doesn't deserve it, but she does not suffer bigots graciously.


EXTRA: When China was chosen for the Olympics, it was in the hope that the honor would encourage them to improve their human rights record. They didn't, and in fact, they are now also oblivious to environmental damage. The athletes of the world should stay home, and the IOC should find an alternate site or sites as soon as possible.

When we went into Iraq, we promised them we would free them from Saddam and his weapons. He had hidden the WMDs, but he couldn't hide himself. Now, we must stay until the Iraqis demonstrate they can govern and protect themselves from the local practitioners of worldwide terrorism.