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I understand that _____ _____ has been in the news recently, and if there is one person in the world that I am sick of hearing about it is _____ _____. I know in the past that I have comment on the doings of _____ _____, but no more. (S)he and his/her family are the [...]
The confluence of the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and the first full day of the 2011 National Football League season is sure to be a treat. NFL Commissioner Roger “Don’t Touch Me I Bruise Easily” Goodell has promised to “unfurl patriotic themes” at each stadium. Huge American flags that cover the entire playing field being [...]
Filed under: Satire
Bill Kristol been taking liberties with Andrew Marvell yet again. From time to time, I too must cross Harvard Yard, where last night a fleeting figure too bright to be his lady thrust into my hands this odious marvel: Has Rupert world enough, and time, To suffer young Bill’s latest rhyme? Though he has authored, [...]
Is how I’d describe this online dead-end:
Filed under: Satire
Wry Dan McCarthy asks below: Won’t it be a wonderful victory for civil liberties when the problem of intimate searches is solved and we can all go back to being X-rayed whenever we fly? Alas, long before we manage to un-encumber ourselves of such as the TSA, x-ray technology will have become our grand-children’s steampunk. [...]
Fed Chairman Bernanke is giving his first press conference. Watching it via the Wall Street Journal live feed, the viewer is presented with this most appropriate advertisement: Some press handler should advise Bernanke to use the singular pronoun more often. The Fed chairman awkwardly refers to the Fed making policy in the plural “we,” even [...]
Over at the Anarchism page on Facebook, the administrators have started quite a row by banning anarcho-capitalists (i.e. libertarian anarchists), and the discussion might be the greatest collection of ideological ironies I’ve ever seen. The “About” section strikes a peaceful, ecumenical chord: Anarchism is peace. The state is war. Anarchism is an opposition to oppressive/coercive [...]
Filed under: libertarianism, Satire
I’ll be a guest (resident reactionary, I call it) this week at the blog of Seattle’s progressive free weekly The Stranger. I have no connection to the blog; the week was a Christmas gift, auctioned off for charity. Here’s my first post, excerpted below, which recycles my post last August on Omar Thornton as a resentment-driven lunatic [...]
Filed under: Announcements, liberties, media, Politics, Satire, Tea Party
From The Onion: NEW YORK—According to media analysts, the nation’s TV commentators and political pundits have proved uncannily accurate when describing the deeply disturbed inner thoughts of accused Arizona gunman Jared Loughner. “It’s strange, but when it comes to getting inside the mind of this human being who seems to possess no empathy, sense of [...]
Filed under: media, Satire, Uncategorized
The mark of brilliant parody is an inability to distinguish between the mocker and the people being mocked. And no one blurs the line quite like Stephen Colbert. Anyone familiar with Colbert and his antics know the particular quirks of his satire: bumper-slogan rhetoric mixed in a paradoxical milieu of faux xenophobia, self-belittlement, delusions of [...]
Filed under: Congress, Culture, Immigration, Satire