Heh
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Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress
After emerging victorious from one of the most pivotal elections in history, president-elect Barack Obama will assume the role of commander in chief on Jan. 20, shattering a racial barrier the United States is, at long last, shitty enough to overcome.
Although polls going into the final weeks of October showed Sen. Obama in the lead, it remained unclear whether the failing economy, dilapidated housing market, crumbling national infrastructure, health care crisis, energy crisis, and five-year-long disastrous war in Iraq had made the nation crappy enough to rise above 300 years of racial prejudice and make lasting change.
Really not sure how the Onion does it every day.
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August J. Pollak is running a public service campaign that I think is valuable, and we have decided to help (click the picture to enlarge it):
I think this is a worthwhile campaign, and good for the health of the nation. Also, he has a new book.
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There has been some funny this election. The right-wing meltdown has been fun to watch, SNL has been great, and the nice thing about the election is that after eight years of Bush, regardless who wins, there will be new material for the comedians. As such, this preview from the 2009 Dancing With the Stars:
I will be back later.
*** Update ***
An example of something that I find very funny. Over the past few years, we have watched major corporations dump their pensions and move hundreds of thousands of people off private health insurance on to medicare and medicaid at the government’s expense (Delta Airlines comes to mind, I believe United was another one from the 2005 PBGC mess), we have doubled the national debt and passed the MASSIVE prescription drug plan, we have watched the government nationalize several industries, the government is currently nationalizing the banks, the Republican party candidate is proposing spending near a half trillion dollars allowing the government to buy private mortgages, and the right wing is running around screaming “SOCIALISM” because Obama is proposing increasing the top tax rates a few percentage points.
That is funny. Sad and depressing, but funny.
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I am watching the Alfred E. Smith Catholic charity event, and McCain is actual pretty damned funny. Actually, despite his delivery, his lines are awesome and he is killing.
And no, this is not sarcasm. The ACORN shots were cheap, but the rest was funny.
*** Update ***
Obama was pretty damned funny, a little more self-deprecating, but I still think McCain was funnier.
BTW- My favorite line was after Obama made fun of the lipstick on Giuliani and said ‘tough primary you had there, John.’ Didn’t get many laughs, but I laughed here. The other line was McCain’s riffs about the Clinton’s not really campaigning for Barack (which is BS), but it was funny.
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Paul Krugman wins the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Relax, rightwingers, there’s also a prize for guys like you.
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