. The special steganography team here at US has succeeded in decoding the real message contained in the Rethugs’ new Pledge To America. The Pledge is a forty eight page document short on detailed plans on how to fix America but rich in graphic filler. Nearly 40% of its pages are comprised of graphs and pictures, some containing multiple images. …
The short answer is that the common ancestor to both humans and monkeys went extinct millions of years ago, after which monkeys and humans went their separate evolutionary ways. But the more pressing question is: How come humans are devolving into complete idiots like Christine O’Donnell? Next thing you know she’ll be warning us about animal human hybrids, like putting …
Political satire has a long and effective history of highlighting important social and political issues, going back at least as far as the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. Contemporary satire has taken many forms, from political cartoonists like the late Paul Conrad; the sixties Yippies throwing burning cash from the balcony of the New York Stock Exchange, performance art that …
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 …
Nonnie over at Hysterical Raisins has a great poster up today depicting the California gubernatorial slugfest between Jerry Brown and billionaire Meg Whitman. In my original Queen Meg In Wonderland post three months ago, I noted that she had already donated some $71 million of her own money to her campaign. Nonnie provides an update on that amount by pointing …
Shiver me timbers and I be shiverin yers From The Devil’s Brethren: the Evolution of Pirate Counter Culture in the Caribbean, by Timothy L. Sullivan: [P]irates…were a relatively conservative population with a mix of traditional and progressive characteristics. They were egalitarian, with little differentiation between the members of the crews; democratic in decision making, electing captains and deposing them when …
