Commentary “Shut up, he explained.” The most famous quotation from the works of Ring Lardner (1885–1933) originally appeared in his comic novel of 1920, “The Young Immigrunts.” (Many of Lardner’s comic effects were achieved by deliberate misspellings.) For a century the quotation’s frequent citation in the works of others suggested that this was the best joke he ever wrote. It’s not a joke anymore. To absolutely no one’s surprise, Facebook confirmed on Wednesday that the indefinite ban on the account of former President Donald Trump was to continue. What was a surprise, however, was that the Oversight Board, with a decided anti-Trump tilt, that was set up by Mark Zuckerberg to relieve himself of the responsibility of being Facebook’s chief censor as well as its chief executive, declined to make the ban permanent. Instead, they tossed this hot potato back to Zuckerberg, saying that it was he, or the company …