Maureen Dowd reverts to high school Latin to summon rhetoric worthy of the Visigoths howling for red meat at the gates:
Bellum Gallium
Manes Julii Caesaris paucis diebus aderant — “O, most bloody sight!” — cum Ioannes McCainus, mavericus et veteranus captivusque Belli Francoindosinini, et Sara Palina, barracuda borealis, qui sneerare amant Baracum Obamam causa oratorii, pillorant [...]
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Avaritia Mala Est? Decline That, Maureen!
SNL Update Thursday: Debate Open
Saturday Night Live - Update Thursday: Debate Open - Video - NBC.com.
Tina Fey, Rabelais, & the American Comedy
On The Media: Transcript of “Becoming the President” (October 3, 2008)
There’s a long tradition in comedy of parodying politicians with their own words, accents and mannerisms. Vaughn Meader made a brief career out of satirizing the Kennedys back in the ’60s and David Frye created the quintessential Nixon. Impressionist Jim Morris talks about the art [...]
Wall Street WMDs? Colin Powell Has Satellite Images
Humorist Paula Poundstone hits the nail on the head on NPR Morning Edition. We’re nervous about this financial crisis, but not convinced. The crisis-mongers don’t have a lot of credibility. Not to worry, she says, we will know how to survive hard times. We’ve read Grapes of Wrath and watched re-runs of The Waltons.
Paula Poundstone [...]
![Shepard Fairey’s “Barack Obama/Hope” image went viral during the 2008 election. Then controversy about the image’s source transformed it into the poster child for fair use in the public debate over copyright and free culture. Now FULAB takes “Hope” as its icon [Image source: Wikipedia]](http://fairuselab.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/shepard_fairey_hope_2008.jpg "shepard_fairey_hope_2008")
Poet and street artist Miss Tic isn't exactly a kid in a hoodie with a can of spray paint. Maybe she can still run like hell when the police show up, but can she sprint in