NEW YORK (PejmanYousefzadeh.net)--The satirist for the New Yorker was hospitalized for a congenital inability to produce funny and interesting satirical material. Andy Borowitz, whose satirical website was purchased by the New Yorker in 2012, in the expectation that it would actually be interesting and humorous, is listed in critical condition at a local hospital. Doctors are unsure …
Donald Trump. Again.
I know, I know, I don't like blogging about Donald Trump either, but he hasn't gone away yet, so I suppose that we cannot ignore him, much as I would like to. So, let's go through some recent stories concerning Trump and his impact on our day-to-day political life, and despair for our republic in …
Venezuelan Humor Has Turned Mordant, which Means that the Venezuelan Political Landscape Could Be Ripe for Change
Nicolás Maduro had better be worried. Jokes like this one have become popular: An Englishman and a Frenchman are at a museum, admiring a Renaissance work depicting Adam, Eve, and the apple in Eden. The Briton observes that Adam sharing the apple with his wife shows a particularly British propriety. The Frenchman, unconvinced, counters that the …
A Modest Job Application
Behold. The awesomeness of this post starts with the salutation itself. My favorite part: “Social entrepreneurs” are not a field, as the sentence’s syntax suggests, and that final clause could be made nimbler by using the adjective “social” only once, as here: “social entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and change makers.” In addition, it’s not clear that “change …
Funny ‘Cause It’s True
Via John Podhoretz, via social media, comes the following humorous and accurate appraisal of media coverage of the Middle East:A CNN Reporter, BBC Reporter, and an Israeli commando were captured by terrorists in Iraq. The leader of the terrorists told them that he would grant them each one last request before they were beheaded.The CNN …
“There Are Idiots. Look Around.”
The quote in the title of this blog post is courtesy of Larry Summers. I thought of it when reading this:Homophones, as any English grammarian can tell you, are words that sound the same but have different meanings and often different spellings — such as be and bee, through and threw, which and witch, their …
“The Germans Play Monopoly”
And hilarity ensues. (Via Paul Gowder, via social media.)
Platonic Dialogue of the Day
The first step in achieving housekeeping wisdom is to admit that one is ignorant when it comes to housekeeping. I have mentioned the following opinion before in other places, and I will mention it here: McSweeney's is funnier than the Onion, though in fairness it should be noted that the Onion can be more profound.
Recently Discovered Video Footage of Friedrich Nietzsche
Honestly. Would I lie? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5GFgulByuM (Hat tip.)
David Brooks At His Best
I've had my problems with David Brooks in the past, but this column is excellent and hilarious, because one can just imagine all of the people he must be writing about: Little boys and girls in ancient Athens grew up wanting to be philosophers. In Renaissance Florence they dreamed of becoming Humanists. But now a new …
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