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 …
We can hope, can’t we? Yes we can. For all her crazy talk, Christine O’Donnell has finally managed to talk her way into becoming a nominee for senator in Delaware, running as a member of the Republican Party. Despite canceling appearances on the teevee talking head circuit this morning, early observations are that she can talk the talk; as for …
Newton Leroy Gingrich announced that “there should be no mosque near ground zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia.”
Ghostbuster’s Gozer the Traveller taking the form of the dreaded Gangrene Gingrich Not much time for writing today, so forgive this extensive cut and paste job, which pretty much covers the arguments surrounding 2012 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich‘s latest lurch to the right to capture what’s left of the party’s base, aka the Teabaggers. HuffPo’s Sam Stein has the headline …
Tempers are flaring again in the backward community Church of the Burning Book, run by Pastor Terry Jones. . .
Proving that while intelligence may be limited, stupidity is not Getting people to consistently vote against their own self-interest is one of the more fascinating dimensions of American politics, a triumph of modern propaganda technique. You’d think that people who can barely survive on low paying, non-union jobs and have no health insurance for themselves or their families would support …
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUPKKbmWMZ8&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] “I have done so much.” “We have done everything we could possibly do.” “We have did [sic] what was right for Arizona.” If you can’t be focused when it counts, what are you like when it doesn’t count?
