“Corporations are people, my friend,” says Mitt Romney, who looks like a middle-aged Ken doll and acts like he has an industrial coolant coursing through his veins. A people expert, no doubt. His valiant defense of the ruling class didn’t play well with some Iowans…
Category: Humor
London looters bypass bookstores… Sign o’ the times?
Looter A: Listen, mate, two quid will get you ten boxes of the latest Franzen, in hardcover.
Looter B: Bollocks! What about the new Xbox 360 games?
Cutbacks in social services for the poor helped trigger riots this week in England, and good old consumerism kept enthusiasm high among participants. But why did looters shun bookstores?
One reason so many current movies suck
Even in the hippie era there was Robert Redford, who could do romantic comedy then convincingly portray legendary Indian fighter Jeremiah Johnson. Now we have Zach Galifianakis, Jeremiah Johnson’s ugly brother, playing the type of guy who couldn’t fight his way up to the bar at happy hour…
Sexist-crazed NOW prez scolds Newsweek
It’s “sexist,” says National Organization for Women President Terry O’Neill, in high dudgeon concerning Newsweek’s cover photo of crazy-eyed Michele Bachmann looking crazy-eyed.
Philly’s turf war against flash mobs
I had to laugh when I saw the Agence France-Presse story about the “flash mob curfew” now in effect in my obscenely humid hometown of Philadelphia.
Live faster, die younger
A no-class-system-in-America joke
An oldie-but-goodie, found on the Internet: These two English professors run into each other and start shooting the breeze …
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The e-trade baby loses everything
Ayn Rand would rap Ryan’s knuckles
Paul Ryan has always insisted on “revenue neutral” tax reform, but now that congressional Dems have been trounced, he’s singing a slightly different tune. The Wisconsin wing-nut said today he’d be open to a deal that would include revenue increases.
The revenues would fall far short of the spending cuts, but you know the economy is tanking again when an Ayn Rand asswipe pretends to give an inch on taxes.