Everything's permissible and nobody's accountable now: Welcome to the age of anything goes
SalonThere it was in my inbox, greeting me at lunchtime on the final day of February with the subject line of, “On Sale! “Six-time Emmy Award, three-time Grammy Award winner and five-time non-consensual masturbator – that we know of!” Now there’s an attention-grabber. “Now they may be in the position to become part of the media oligarchy under the new anti-democratic government.” Tony Hinchcliffe at a Trump rally on Oct. 27 at Madison Square Garden in New York. If you don’t follow Schulz’s podcasts or, say, listen to him lovingly rave about how much New Yorkers love Puerto Rico and its people on Shannon Sharpe’s “Club Shay Shay,” you might not know that he’s laughing with them, not at them. Comedy employs equations that decode the American psyche, like the classic “tragedy plus time” math, or a certain comedian’s popular “of course, but maybe” bit.
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