Bigotry
« Previous EntriesThe New Yorker’s very dry wit
Sunday, July 13th, 2008I guess this is kind of funny? Sort of?
I think the problem here - and why the cover is neither offensive nor hilarious but just sort of baffling - is that whichever editor approved this cover doesn’t quite get satire.
See, if this cover were a work of satire, then the artist would have taken something […]
Obama learns lessons of 2006, chooses to ignore them anyway
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Hey, does anyone remember that anti-Lieberman primary challenge in the 2006 Connecticut Senate elections? The one with Ned something? Ned … Ned Lamont? I think I might have mentioned that race here before.
Obama was involved in that one somehow, wasn’t he? Oh yeah, that’s right - he endorsed Lieberman in the primary and then, when […]
The Texas Republican State Convention
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008God I wish I were there right now. It sounds wonderfully surreal.
I can’t help but imagine a planning session in which the state Republican party all gets together and debates the critical issue of the day: Should the convention’s theme be racism, or horribly schlocky godawful country music?
Eventually a guy with a 10-gallon hat silences […]
Mark Penn’s Newest Campaign: Self-Exoneration!
Sunday, June 8th, 2008This post almost didn’t happen. After watching Hillary Clinton’s concession speech, I was willing to look past her campaign’s sins and let bygones be bygones - yes, even with Mark Penn!
But then I saw that Penn’s trying to distance himself from the truly impressive résumé of fuckups he’s accumulated over the past sixteen months. To […]
A brief intro to secret terrorist gestures
Saturday, June 7th, 2008Fox News has barely scratched the surface here. I’ve obtained a guide to secret terrorist gestures on the black market that shed some light on some of the most iconic images of Barack Hussein Galactus Obama.
The mark of the beast
Monday, June 2nd, 2008Lieberman’s third-bestest-friend in the whole wide world - behind John McCain and George W. Bush - is a dude named John Hagee. You might’ve heard the name before. And it turns out he has some … uh … interesting ideas about the apocalypse.
The most charitable possible interpretation
Thursday, May 8th, 2008Hillary Clinton and Terry McAuliffe stared at the TV screen, dismayed. The numbers had just come in for Indiana, and it wasn’t looking good.
“Well,” Hillary sighed, “I guess that’s it, then.”
Terry slumped back down into his seat and ran a hand through his hair. He couldn’t believe that it was finally coming to a close.
“Terry,” […]
Sexual assault at UCONN
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Via Ezra Klein, this story was absolutely chilling. The gist of it is that the editor in chief of UCONN’s school paper was sexually assaulted during Spring Weekend and successfully fended off the attacker in front of a crowd of people who - and this is the really disgusting part - instead of helping her […]
Regular people
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008Chris Matthews talking to Senator McCaskill about Obama’s appeal:
MATTHEWS: OK. Let me ask you about how he — how’s he connect with regular people? Does he? Or does he only appeal to people who come from the African-American community and from the people who have college or advanced degrees?
Uh …
I guess we should just feel […]
Because the NY governorship still isn’t absurd enough
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Well, it looks like Rep. Pete King has this kooky idea in his head that he might be running for governor of New York in 2010. Which means that it’s time to take a look at Pete King’s greatest hit[s]!
New York Rep. Peter King, a prominent House Republican, said there are “too many mosques in […]