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p> UNCURBED ENTHUSIASM br> Re: Paul Beston's Too Much of Nothing : /p>

Please try to remember that Larry David's the guy who, along with Seinfeld, actually satirized the Kennedy assassination through a hilarious "Who Spit At Who?" bit involving the Mets' Keith Hernandez and Roger McDowell. He has consistently portrayed himself as basically negative: craven, self-centered, somewhat bigoted, and so on. Not exactly a classic navel-gazing, holier-than-thou liberal, eh?

In much the same vein as South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Larry helps us laugh at stuff no one else has the guts to touch. If the price for that is an occasional smarmy, snarky swipe at honorable military service, we should be able to handle the joke (unlike our Quebecker friends to the north.) If anything, his description of unchallenging Army and Air Force Guard duty in the early '70s comes uncomfortably close to stories told to me by friends at the time -- a far cry from qualifying to fly F-102s back then, or Guard duty as a whole today.

p>As a sidelight, I found it interesting how hard it was to post a comment on Mr. David's op-ed in the New York Times , or to find a convenient Larry website to which I could share the above thoughts. Are these guys afraid of replies or something? br> -- Jeff Kocur br> Milford, Delaware /p>

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