I hope I'm not boring you with these "chucklers" from the Times. Here's a tidbit from today's puffball of a profile of Comedy Central's new featured lout...

In the opening monologue on tonight's show Mr. Mencia jokes that Middle Eastern people stopped at airport security checkpoints have gotten off relatively easy compared with the trials other minorities in America have had to endure. Mr. Mencia, who has an intense delivery style reminiscent of Samuel L. Jackson's, remained unapologetic when asked if his material was too harsh on those of Middle Eastern descent, potentially fanning the embers of intolerance. "If the worst thing happening to Middle Eastern people is that Carlos Mencia is doing a joke about them being stopped at airports, that's a pretty awesome state of affairs," he said. "When's the last time you heard about a Middle Eastern person being beaten to death?"

I guess he's got a point. It's been a long time -- almost a year.

(Unless, of course, you count Middle-Easterner-on-Middle-Easterner beatings. Then, well...)