{"id":16322,"date":"2016-04-21T10:10:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T15:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16322"},"modified":"2016-04-21T10:39:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T15:39:08","slug":"can-a-65-year-old-white-man-who-has-never-had-a-period-become-the-amy-shumer-of-american-school-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16322","title":{"rendered":"Can a 65 year old white man who has never had a period become the Amy Shumer of American School Boards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/revolutionartnow.altervista.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/handala.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A year or two ago I heard an NPR story about a woman comedian who tells the raunchiest stories imaginable and about her great popularity. A couple months ago I watched her hour long stage performance during my flight to Israel. Holy xxxxxx! Was it ever funny! Holy XXXXX! Was it ever raunchy! <\/p>\n<p>So, the answer to the question posed in the title is. No. I\u2019m not that smart and I\u2019m not that funny. But I am trying to be that honest. And honesty is often the key to good comedy as is the surprise its telling can bring to a listener. Truth can be gut bustingly funny. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/how-amy-schumer-became-the-hottest-comedian-in-america\/375774441\/\">her story<\/a> in the Trib.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Shumer is drop dead honest even if she embellishes her stories. Her shtick roils her audiences, both men and women, with laughter. If her visceral honesty showed bloodshed I would no more watch it than one of the ISIS decapitations on Youtube. I\u2019m insulted that comic book criminals think they can scare me into fearing them. They are ten-fold more fearful of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;rct=j&#038;q=&#038;esrc=s&#038;source=web&#038;cd=1&#038;cad=rja&#038;uact=8&#038;ved=0ahUKEwjRjsffhKDMAhXDOCYKHZZkD8AQFggbMAA&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Facmeofskill.com%2F2014%2F11%2Fkurds-make-fun-isis-parody-video%2F&#038;usg=AFQjCNG87FdX9sjyG7VqpeAle5YS-ktb7w&#038;bvm=bv.119745492,d.eWE\">the comics in Kurdistan<\/a> or the cartoonists in Europe who mock and expose them for the dim wits they are. <\/p>\n<p>I learned about such a man when I visited Israel. He was a Palestinian and his name was  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naji_al-Ali\">Naji al-Ali<\/a>. He was assassinated in London, where he had moved to be safe from the people his cartoons skewered back in Israel and Palestine. A good guess is that Yasir Arafat had him executed.<\/p>\n<p>Thank God that in Duluth the people who find criticism painful only resort to <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?s=character+assassination\">character assassination<\/a>. I\u2019m so glad I live in a nation where an Amy Shumer can embarrass the hell out of me. Its a fine example of truth telling that goes back long before Mark Twain who&#8217;s quote I have placed on this blog and <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?s=first+God+created+the+idiot\">quoted many times<\/a> in the past. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year or two ago I heard an NPR story about a woman comedian who tells the raunchiest stories imaginable and about her great&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,107],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16322"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16339,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322\/revisions\/16339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}