DISQUS

The Alan Dundes paper on Auschwitz jokes was published here:

Western Folklore, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Oct., 1983), pp. 249-260

Living in Berkeley CA, I've had recent exposure to well above my minimum daily requirement of patriots, thanks to the influx of red-staters who came here to chastise us for trying to boot out the Marine recruiting office downtown. The fanaticism they brought to their loud insistence on the "heroism" of their thoroughly duped offspring for having signed up for this war was unsurprising, but terrifying nonetheless. I saw it again last night in the eyes of the hideous Wolf Blitzer on CNN, who spoke repeatedly of the "anti-Americanism" of Obama's pastor with such contempt and disgust that I had to laugh.