Kerfuffle? Brouhaha? Spat? Tiff? Rape? Clusterfuck? Nobody seems to have a handle on le mot juste for whatever it is that’s going down at 1000 Mass. Avenue, home of the Cato Institute’s refurbished pad, where the Koch Boys, Mannie, Moe, and Jack Dave and Charlie, are trying to muscle out long-time prez Ed Crane. The…
Author: Alan Vanneman
The fluke of Fluke
It would be easy to criticize the recent testimony of Georgetown Law School student Sandra Fluke.* Is it really true that “Forty percent of the female students at Georgetown Law report struggling financially” because the school’s health insurance doesn’t cover birth control? I guess she means, 40 percent say it costs them money. Does birth…
Obama to Netanyahu: Don’t attack Iran! Let me do it for you!
Yes, that’s the plan of our president, Barack “The Republicans can’t paint me in a corner if I do it first!” Obama, promising that he can harass, and bully, and humiliate a nation of 70 million people into doing exactly what he wants them to do, shutting his eyes to the fact that he will…
Jon Stewart doesn’t deserve this
The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook He doesn’t. Jon Stewart gets paid a lot of money to think up funny stuff about the news. But thanks to U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) he doesn’t have to. All he has to do is run clips of…
The Beast that Cannot Die
“There are, perhaps, aspects of my personality of which I am unaware”—William Shatner We’ve all done it—made fun of that great walking ego known as William Shatner. Robert Schnakenberg did so in his brilliant book, Encyclopedia Shatnerica: An A to Z Guide to the Man and His Universe, which I recapitulated here.* Now Scott Brown…
Ehud Asherie & Dan Block—“Off Minor”
Ehuds on piano, Dan on sax. Recorded live at Smalls, New York City, November 20, 2008 by Michael Steinman. Posted by swingyoucats
You don’t have to be Jewish to find this funny
Egyptian Lawmaker Resigns Amid Scandal Over Nose JobBut it wouldn’t hurt.
A Speedo in the Sunlight: When Matt Met Andy
“I don’t think there was a single day during that time when we did not flash each other or laugh with each other, or challenge each other. I still see him in my mind’s eye in Venice Beach, the sunny day I met him. He was in his mid 20’s. It was all there.“—Matt Drudge,…
Pseudo-New Yorker
Legal humor here. “Okay. Deegan sucks. Riverside sucks. Bruckner sucks. FDR sucks. Bronx River sucks. Tell me something I don’t know.” “Well, if we don’t reach Van Courtlandt Park by midnight, I’m turning into a fucking pumpkin. You deal with that.” “I think I’ve had just about enough of Pachelbel’s canon, thank you very much….
Jeff Sachs, ready to travel the world first class to help the poor, if someone else pays for it
Jeff Sachs, a self-promoting world-savior to rival Angelina Jolie, Madonna, and Oprah put together, wants the job at the World Bank. He’s currently pitching himself for the job, in an exercise of self-sanctifying prose the likes of which I have (fortunately) seldom seen: “My quest to help end poverty has taken me to more than…