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A Talk with Mort Sahl

25 August 2003

3280 CommentsA+Talk+with+Mort+Sahl2003-08-25+15%3A19%3A00Michael

Just read an interview with satirist Mort Sahl, still pissed off at age 76. He’s always been right on the beam about the Kennedy assassination, the canary in the coal mine; I’m not talking specifics, I’m talking about knowing that something was fishy and politicized and “spun.” And it wasn’t simply JFK-worship, either: He got [...]

FOX Vs. Franken Thrown Out of Court…

23 August 2003

3250 CommentsFOX+Vs.+Franken+Thrown+Out+of+Court...2003-08-23+01%3A03%3A00Michael

FOX’s suit versus Al Franken’s new book got exactly the treatment it deserved today. One hopes that it was expensive enough a lesson in First Amendment law that FOX will stop filing frivolous lawsuits against obviously satirical products.

If you watched Warner Bros. cartoons as a kid…

14 July 2003

2940 Comments2003-07-14+22%3A02%3A00Michael

…then you’ll love this catalog of products from ACME. Many’s the time when I could’ve used an ACME product or two. “Be popular! Be a rock!” With the ACME Artificial Rock, of course.

Vonnegut on Twain

15 May 2003

2530 CommentsVonnegut+on+Twain2003-05-15+15%3A00%3A00Michael

In These Times has excerpted a wonderful speech Kurt Vonnegut recently gave at the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut. I want to be Mark Twain when I grow up, and I am tempted to say that all of you should, too.

Can somebody help me?

7 May 2003

2490 CommentsCan+somebody+help+me%3F2003-05-07+18%3A56%3A00Michael

I just read Adam Gopnik’s piece on the antiestablishment comics of the 50s and 60s in the current New Yorker, and I swear I couldn’t make much of it. Opinions? Can anybody out there help? It’s a book review, and I’m buying the book today. Meanwhile, forgive me while I try to figure out what [...]