Each one of us picks a few things to glom on to as a child, a movie or a piece of clothing or even a kind of food, and those things become part of the furniture we carry around upstairs. Cartoonist Gahan Wilson—think Charles Addams, but infinitely more threatening and hallucinatory—is definitely in my own [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 7, 2007
Keith Olbermann’s “Special Comment” in the wake of the Libby commutation is 100% correct. Watch the video here. For those of you who prefer to read, the transcript is below, but the take-away is simple: Bush and Cheney must resign for the good of the country, and since they won’t, Congress must impeach them. “Finally [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Audio version is here. A former administrator for the Smithsonian says that the museum altered an exhibit on global warming so as not to antagonize the Bush Administration. A spokeswoman for the White House called the story ridiculous., “This President would never go in a museum.” The exhibit was titled, “The Arctic: A Friend Acting [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 5, 2006
In the wake of Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen calling satirist Stephen Colbert “a bully,” Jon and I started wondering: is Colbert the biggest bully in history? Probably. But being believers in the democratic process, we decided to assemble a list and leave the choice to you. 1. Charlie Chaplin attacks a defenseless Hitler (1937)Anybody [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 22, 2003
The Onion recently ran this interview with P.J. O’Rourke, timed (I suppose) to the recent rerelease of the National Lampoon High School Yearbook Parody, which PJ co-edited with Doug Kenney back in 1974. While we’re on the subject, and sorry to fulfill everybody’s expectations by saying so (“Ahh, nobody knows how to do print humor [...]
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