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Only one man cried, To the hack at Rolling Stone, And they say his mouth went astray, Branded! Marked with a traitor’s shame, But how else to play such a bad hand, When the think-tanks await? Career prospects dying all about, He sang a coward’s tune, It’s a suicide mission and a rout, that’s making [...]
Filed under: Satire
“Your guide to the idiom of mass delusion” Thoughtfulness, n. blogspeak: 1. Cowardice or careerism taken or presented as sober reflection, meditation, or contemplation. 2. Deference to convention or power; self-censorship to avoid offense or the degradation of one’s professional prospects. 3. Intellectual conformance driven by a fear of social ostracism. Thoughtful, a. Milquetoast; mealy-mouthed; [...]
Antipathy between CIA and FBI runs deep. There was a news item tonight about someone in northern Virginia pretending to be an FBI special agent. I immediately, and reflexively, thought “Oh yeah, all he needed was a bad haircut and a cheap suit.” Apologies to at least some of those who might be offended. It [...]
Filed under: Satire, Uncategorized
On a humorous note, today while running a few errands for the TAC office I stopped by the local Mail Plus store to send out a few faxes. While I waited for the clerk to process the faxes, I noticed a list on the wall behind the counter. It was a “BAD CHECKS” list. Contained [...]
Happily, you need not invest the next few weeks of your life reading the 1,990-page House overhaul of the health-insurance — and by implication, the healthcare — industry. A convenient summary has been provided, compliments of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. To provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, [...]
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I was certain that Freddy Gray had mentioned here earlier what is possibly the best television program ever made, Armando Ianucci’s devastating satire of British politics The Thick of It (possibly NSFW for language), but cannot find it this morning. Nonetheless I advise anybody who reads or writes for The American Conservative to see it, and keep [...]
Somebody called Zac Morgan at David Frum’s New Majority site berates Rachel Maddow for daring to make jokes about the rumors that the Obama administration is trying to drop the phrase “Global War on Terror.” This is no laughing matter, says Mr Morgan: Maddow snarked about inaccurate reports that President Obama had changed the name [...]
Rushing in where even a quarter-century’s worth of genocidal Indonesians feared to tread, comes East Timor’s über-babe Amivi Gama–new President for Life, C-in-C of the Armed Forces, and High Court Chief Justice–whose smack of firm government has been subjected to a misogynistic media embargo, breached only, of course, by the ever-indispensable Onion: East Timor’s First Female Dictator Hailed As Step [...]
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From the Onion‘s feature on the Obama administration’s first 100 days: DAY 41: Sixteen hours and 25 cups of coffee into a Treasury Dept. strategy session, Tim Geithner proposes nationalizing CitiGroup, Bank of America, all nine seasons of Seinfeld, toast, Albania, and the third law of thermodynamics.