You gotta love the essay on ultimate sports. It has become the refuge for the intimidated white athlete. The brothers dominate basketball and football. Hell, if they gave a damn about it, they could rule baseball too.

But cripes, this Schwarz guy in THE ATLANTIC could over-analyze the fun out of a Mazola party at the Tri-Delt’s sorority house.

SWPL is funny. And “smug intolerance of the educated elite”? Please. Isn’t the audience for SWPL the educated elite? Some of them may not enjoy being the foil for the humor, but they damned sure enjoy reading about themselves.

It’s humor with an edge. Good humor has an agenda. It needs to be grounded in something its intended audience can relate to.

Why does finding humor at the expense of someone or something automatically equate to contempt? Like my wife always tells me when I put on my swim trunks to go to the beach, “They’re not laughing AT you, they’re laughing WITH you!” She’s correct, right? God, I hope so. But hell, now that I think about it, why are they laughing at all?

And did Schwarz use ’solipsim” in his essay? Damn I hate it when people do that.