Jon Stewart shows us — using Fox’s own style of reasoning — why the best way to “cut off funding to the terror mosque” is to stop watching Fox News. Of course, what he seriously shows us is how Fox rapes journalistic ethics (by not mentioning its own “ties” to the mosque funding) in order to…
What’s happening to language? It’s changing, of course. We had breakfast a couple of days ago in one of our fine local restaurants. The young waitress asked us what we’d like to drink, and when I said “water,” she said “awesome!” It’s interesting how such reflexive overuse of words eventually empties them of meaning….
Hey, that looks like my uncle Ernie! I thought he was still working his way across the Midwest with his quartz rock collection in his old suitcase, leaching lodging and meals from our relatives. Looks like he found a new shtick. Or, wait a minute, the FBI thinks this “geezer” may actually be a…
Our daughter-in-law, Sandra, posted this picture to Facebook, as a perfect image of “patience and wisdom.”
Lewis Black sees Glenn Beck clearly. It’s not too much to say that Beck is such a clown that only a comedian can truly understand him. Lewis Black’s riff on Beck (below) is funny, but it also highlights Beck’s weird psychopathology, which seems uncategorizable, so why shouldn’t another comedian name it? Black names it…