I was talking to a California teacher the other day about the way her kids casually call each other “gay,” as the universal synonym for “uncool.” As she put it, they sincerely have no clue. Understandably, I didn’t have a lot of faith in the American public’s ability to appreciate the satire that supposedly excuses […]

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In his tiny, barely publicized, obscure new summer movie, Bruno, Sasha Baron Cohen (a.k.a. Borat) plays a Eurotrash fashionista who “adopts” a black baby. In the film’s sentimental trailer, Cohen’s alter-ego Bruno is seen picking the newly imported baby off an airport luggage carousel and guesting on an apparently plausible talk show hosted by Richard […]

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