All Joking Aside Alex Mullarky not an academic

not an academic

A career con man writes one bad check too many and is sentenced to life in prison-for a check in the amount of $129

which in the face of too much freedom paradoxically leads many of its adherents to enact their own dogmas

develop and research the role of spirituality in the 21st century

the truly sick are left to wrestle with disjointed services and confusing options

All Joking Aside Alex Mullarky not an academicIn this examination of stand up comedy, Rebecca Krefting establishes a new genre of comedic production, 'charged humor,' and charts its pathways from production to consumption. Some jokes are tears in the fabric of our beliefsthey challenge myths about how fair and democratic our society is and the behaviors and practices we enact to maintain those fictions. Jokes loaded with vitriol and delivered with verve, charged humor compels audiences to action,