As everyone in fly-over country knows, Jeff Dunham is a very talented ventriloquist, which is quite an achievement for the art is out of favor, and justifiably so. He's got a show on Comedy Central which I lost patience with in the first fifteen minutes, but don't take that as a review. I could lose patience with a train wreck unless it was a special train filled with the DNC going to Massachusetts.

The New York Times deigned to notice Jeff Dunham. I read the article so you don't have to, if you're fastidious about where you click. The title is Comedy for Dummies, which is barely tolerable because Dunham does work with dummies. The picture, though, is an embarrassment. It's been sharpened to caricature. No doubt they meant something snide. Without doubt they look amateurish.

Reading down you get

MAYBE YOU HAVEN'T heard of Jeff Dunham. It hardly matters. For decades, when he played comedy clubs and small theaters, his most loyal audiences were in middle America.

I see. Jeff Dunham is so popular with middle America that it doesn't matter if precious goddamned New York liberals have heard of him or not. It seems that if one reaches a certain level of popularity in fly-over country then one can exist without being heard of by precious goddamned New Yorkers.

I recall the commercials for that same fish-wrap paper flogging the weekend edition. "How many sections are you fluent in?"

Well, let's see. None. And I'm solvent and they're not.

Jeff Dunham, who has a right to exist, is very solvent. And they're not.

Fox News, whom they abhor, is solvent, and they're not.

Survival is the best revenge.

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Joke of the day.

What is the problem with Obama jokes?

His followers don't think they're funny and everyone else doesn't think they're jokes.