BY TOM TOMORROW
Earlier today, I just got around to commenting on the recent shooting at a Unitarian church, noting : I don’t think it’s fair to say that people like Limbaugh and O’Reilly are directly or even indirectly responsible for the shooting, but it’s pretty obvious to anyone who’s been paying attention that the limits of what’s …
Conservative “humor.” Related cartoon here. … also tangentially related: this 1995 Molly Ivins column on Rush Limbaugh. The kind of humor Limbaugh uses troubles me deeply, because I have spent much of my professional life making fun of politicians. I believe it is a great American tradition and should be encouraged. We should all laugh …
Two new articles I co-wrote have just been posted. One is at TomDispatch, about the Iraq investigations Congress should do, but won’t without pressure: As humorist Bob Harris enjoys saying about the Bush administration, “It’s like a new Watergate every day with these people.” Congress could probably spend three decades profitably examining the last six …
During my little experiment with comments last week, I noticed this post in a thread about the Toles cartoon: SP4 Tomas V. Young (Ret) Says: As a veteran of the war in Iraq who knows a thing or two about “traumatic and life-altering injuries†although not to the point of the soldier depicted in the …
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Since it’s easy, fun, and the bulk of my mental energies are devoted to other tasks, I’m gonna waste another post bashing Bill O’Reilly for his absurd Christmas crusade. This time, the object of O’Reilly’s rage is the Daily Show, because O’Reilly is too fucking stupid to tell the difference between social commentary and satire. …