Today, as we bid farewell to Jon Stewart in his tenure as one of the most unlikely voices of a generation on The Daily Show, I must hark back to the original king of American satire and mockery, Mark Twain… Read More ›
Jon Stewart
Biographer Writes Her Own Chapter in Petraeus’s Story
Let’s get a few things straight here: Paula Broadwell is not a biographer. She is not a journalist, she is not a reporter and she most certainly is not a card carrying member of the 4th Estate. For starters, how… Read More ›
Sometimes Quickly, Sometimes Slowly: The Obama and Bush Approaches to Disaster Management
One of the hallmarks of the George W. Bush administration was that their realities were oftentimes more absurd than the parodies created to mock them. Nothing Jon Stewart and his boys cooked up in a writers meeting could have been… Read More ›
Gore (Vidal) v. Bush League
“At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes,… Read More ›
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