FLORIDA
- “Die quietly, we want to live.”
- McCollum: Health care reform unconstitutional
- Found Jacksonville girl wouldn’t talk, so she hid
- Yes Virginia, the military doesn’t like offshore drilling
- Tim Tebow shills for Focus on the Family
- Fools and their money: Brian Wesbury edition
- Biking is BS in South Florida
- Polk’s Neil Combee to run for the House
BEYOND
- Man who shot pope in 1981 is free
- Twitter joke led to Terror Act arrest and airport life ban
- Why Jon Stewart failed to make John Yoo squirm
- New York Times ready to charge online readers
- “Game Change” and the ethics of campaign journalism
“To comedy writers, Leno’s massive success represents the triumph of mediocrity. It’s the tragedy of a prodigiously talented stand-up making a conscious decision to dumb down his material to reach the widest possible audience. He won over the masses while alienating comedy geeks. He came to symbolize everything crass and mercenary about comedy. As the years went on, Leno became synonymous with Monica Lewinsky and O.J. jokes. His name became shorthand for lazy, dumb and obvious comedy. To comedy snobs, “The Tonight Show” under his nightmare realm was one long Dancing Itos sketch.”
—Nathan Rabin, from his essay in the Wall Street Journal, “Why Some Comics Aren’t Laughing at Jay Leno”
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