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 …
A Charge To Keep, by W.H.D. Koerner The above painting was proudly displayed in Governor George Bush‘s office in Austin, Texas. As Crooks and Liars describes it: In 1995, he issued a memo to his Texas staff, describing the painting, by W.H.D. Koerner in 1916, which he kept on his office wall. Bush told his aides: The…painting is based upon …
Phil Gramm, a once overly proud and supposedly well-educated Republican who succumbed to the corruption of the evil influence of power and politics, was sent down the McCain Mountain of Straight Talk Slag late Friday night, slinking off into the violent storm brewing on the “time horizon.” A “time horizon” is a supposedly fixed point in the future at which …
The New Joeker cover is catching shit from the Rebuplican Right; we think you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. “Satire, like the razor keen, is best when scarcely felt or seen.” —Terry Kruger, after unknown IF YOU LOOKED CAREFULLY, you could probably spot the first satirical drawing by a human being in one of the rooms at Lascaux; no doubt some …
[T]he ‘content’ of a medium is like the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind. –Marshall McLuhan Notwithstanding that people who suffer damage to the right parahippocampal gyrus are incapable of registering sarcasm (sometimes equated with satire, an arguable difference being the use of irony by the former to merely demean versus …
Cindy takes John Sidney out for his first spin on the InnerTubes, part of the new high-tech frontier of Teh Internets he’s getting hip to. McCain said he was pretty sure certain he was “feeling the urge to email” now, and that the big GOP Elephant tube felt “really good” between his legs. “The internet is not something that you …
Some are calling it “Too little too late,” while others are reflexively saying, “Better late than never.” Either way, everyone seems to be gathering strength from the simple calendrical fact that the worst disaster in American presidential history is approaching its scheduled end. We’re talking of course, of the Bush Preznincy, currently inflicting its last several months on a weary …
