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Perhaps quite by accident or perhaps with full subversive intent, a headline over another WP front-page story--about the return of a certain movie killer whale to the high seas--sends an ominous message, though: "A Whale of an Ending for 'Willy'".
In 1635 the Japanese were forbidden, on pain of death, to attempt to travel abroad, and Japanese citizens already overseas were prevented from returning, in case they brought back subversive Christian doctrines.
Not only is it full of cursing, ethnic jokes, prostitution, and the like, but it dares to have no laugh track and a bastard as the protagonist: "the show is truly subversive and daring in its scabrous attitude" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). A few minor complaints: 1) The show is "a little in love with its own transgressiveness" (James Poniewozik, Time ). 2) The show relies on "humiliation humor" and Entertainment Weekly 's Ken Tucker predicts that the unlikability of star Jay Mohr will sink the show.
And what subversive intent, what wicked wit, was at work here?
McCain has been conducting himself in the same delightfully subversive way as a candidate for the GOP nomination.