He recalls hearing drug-pushers in the 1980s joking "Just say no!" as they handed over the goods, mocking Nancy Reagan's anti-drug slogan.Blacks who do well in school are hungrily recruited by universities, which often admit them with lower test scores than are required of whites or Asians.
"Sometimes it feels like good mock-Shakespeare," he wrote, "sometimes it feels very like Shakespeare in passing lines and speeches, often it feels like a dummy run for 'Henry V,' but almost never does it have Shakespeare's lightning strokes of piercing humanity or his mastery of dramatic development.
They just do whatever the hell they want, whether it's with lyrics or production, and I think that's a good mock-up for how rock can move along.
Rudy Giuliani, the biggest bully the fair city of New York has ever seen (and that's saying something), came onstage and did pretty much the only thing he's good at: mocking a more honorable person through unsubstantiated ad hominim vitriol.
Maureen Dowd has offered a good shot, mocking the administration's strutting machismo and John Kerry's use of military hardware in his campaign; she's even outted Donald Rumsfeld as a metrosexual.
He had jolly good fun mocking struggling dot-com executives on his widely read Web site with the vulgar name, but now the shoe is on the other throat -- his.
The former Manchester United footballer is so good at mocking his own sense of self-importance that he's an absolute natural when it comes to performances like this and here he delivers on every level.
Here we are, I thought, surely about to be killed for a very good reason for mocking a warlord in his own house.
And that belief is deserving of no less dismissal than the one for which we've all had such a good time mocking Pastor Harold Camping over the past couple of weeks.
