He is not as famous as John Ogbu, the late African-born Berkeley professor who argued that the gap could be explained by the cultural behavior of African-Americans, like mocking hard-working classmates for "acting white".
Breathed mocked hard rock just as he mocked the people like Tipper Gore who hated it, and he seemed to treat all religions with equal unseriousness witness his strip about a money-demanding Hare Krishna, or the controversial Opus storyline where a ditzy character converts to "radical Islam".
Arguments like that are easy to mock, and hard to defend.
Made by the Danish radio station P3-DR, the video mocks the hard line sentiments which have been on the rise across Scandinavia and northern Europe.
Though the mocking tone makes it hard to care about these lost children, a certain pathos does leak through.
Whitehall didn't pull any punches in spite of Harry's royalty, mocking his reputation for hard-partying, continued single status and his ginger hair.
The latest illustration of this paradox — definitively mocked in "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" a few years back — is "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll," a dutiful and admiring film about Ian Dury, one of the more eccentric stars of British punk rock.
Connie reminds him of the girls at school who fussed over him and derided him when he was a pretty child — girls with hard hands and mocking raucous voices, fat floppy bows in their hair.
Whether he was celebrating classicism or mocking it is a little hard to tell in well-known pictures like "The Source," with its massive woman suggestively cradling a long-necked jug in her lap.
The GOP and Tea Party may deny climate change, and liberals may get a kick out of mocking them for ignoring the hard facts of science, but the Democrats haven't done shit about the problem either, even where they could have.
Dr. Dean's complaints notwithstanding, many Democrats said it had been his campaign -- the hard-hitting outsider mocking the Washington Democratic establishment candidates to approving cheers -- that set the tone.
