In Mary Shelley’s classic sci-fi horror novel, Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (1818), her protagonist, the brilliant Dr. Viktor Frankenstein, allows his hubris to get the better of him by assuming the powers of the Creator. His monstrous faux human creation, without name or number in the original—let’s call him “Donald” for now– refers to himself initially as “the Adam of …
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Postcards From the Pledge www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party After being thrashed in the ’04 and ’08 elections by margins large enough to overcome their usual election fraud engineering ops, the Rethugs launched a website last May to receive new ideas from the public …
Three down, two to go. Obama’s daily economic briefing team: Peter Orszag, Christina Romer, Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner, and Jared Bernstein A month after President Obama took office, in a post titled Geithner’s Rescue Plan, I called on him to dump both Geithner and his chief economic architect, Larry Summers: Obama likes to brag that he can walk and chew …
McSame demonstrates he no longer needs his wife to access the internets Frank Rich begins his New York Times Sunday column yesterday by noting what a favor Barack Obama did for his presidential rival, John McSame, by traveling overseas this weekend: THE best thing to happen to John McCain was for the three network anchors to leave him in the …
