kevin

If someone reacts negatively to a transcribed joke in a thinkpiece, that means they didn’t like READING those words IN PRINT while ALONE as WRITTEN by a JOURNALIST followed by SILENCE. That is completely different than HEARING those words SPOKEN ALOUD in a room FULL OF PEOPLE as PERFORMED by a COMEDIAN followed by LAUGHTER.

… stories, planning the cover, debating what structural reforms Egypt should implement to revive its sclerotic economy or how America could make its penal system less punitive — this is the business of The Econ…