The time has come to ask: What might happen to our country if we elect a...
Dave and Hilzoy have noted some concerns on the part of our friends on the Right that Barack Obama may not actually be what he appears to be — a centrist Democrat with the most mild of reformist...
View ArticleA Fiendish Cartoon Teaching Kids To Question Authority
Smithsonian magazine revisits the political satire of 1960’s children’s show Rocky and Bullwinkle. I’ve been doing some research into children’s media these days (as you can tell by my previous Sesame...
View ArticleWhen Is Dressing Up Like Hitler Okay?
The difference between “good” Nazi humor and bad is about who gets to be the butt of the joke. “There can be no poetry after Auschwitz,” said Theodor Adorno. One can only imagine what he might of said...
View ArticleLaughing When It Hurts and Why Your Trump Jokes Suck
I’ve done a little (ok maybe not so little) vlogcast with Aryeh Cohen Wade over at Culturally Determined on Bloggingheads.tv based on my earlier post about When Its Okay To Dress Like Hitler. Aryeh...
View ArticleBuchwald
The Kansas City Star has printed without commentary this 1973 Art Buchwald commentary that was merely a list of statements. I will reprint it here too. These are difficult times for people who are...
View ArticleHumorless Meninists Suspended Me From Twitter
It appears some brave humanitarian soul has gotten me suspended from Twitter based on a tweet where I used the hashtag #KillAllMen. Not that it really matters, but the tweet appeared in an exchange I...
View Article#KillAllMen Is Feminist Liberation Through Satire
Trolls aren’t just after me, they’re after your rhetorical tools in speech against oppression Days after my twelve-hour suspension from Twitter ended, the trolls have returned under the same absurdly...
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